Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on system design concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing platform providers AWS specifically, Azure/GCP
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Advanced knowledge of containerization and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/EKS)
- Proficiency with developing microservices (Java or Python)
- Desire to lead and develop a team of software engineers and help them achieve their potential
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience architecting cloud applications for scalability and high availability
- Experience with event-driven applications (Apache Kafka)
- Experience designing & building telemetry & logging capabilities for cloud platforms
- Certifications in target areas (Cloud/Kubernetes/IaC etc)