Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Position Description:

Builds highly scalable systems that support enterprise use cases, using Python, and SQL. Rapidly deploys changes to customers while minimizing risk, using A/B tests, blue-green deployments. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve enterprise-wide solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
• Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams.
• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology application.
• Consult on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Researches and recommends new technologies.
• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and testing highly scaled, secure daemon and Web applications in Linux environments.

Or, alternatively, Master s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and testing highly scaled, secure daemon and Web applications in Linux environments.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (\u201CDE\u201D) acting as a member of a full-stack engineering team -- designing, developing, and testing highly scaled, secure Web applications, using Python and Angular; performing distributed Object-Oriented (OO) design, using microservices design patterns, Bitbucket, and Maven; and performing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) in Linux Virtual environments, using Jenkins and Artifactory.
• DE implementing operational data stores and data lakes in production environments; performing data analysis on multiple database platforms; and developing Extract, Transform, Load/Extract, Load, Transform (ETL/ELT) pipelines to migrate data to and from Snowflake data store, using Python and Snowflake SnowSQL.
• DE building, deploying, and running secure Cloud-native applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS) core services -- EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway; building, deploying, and running Cloud container platforms, using Docker, ECS, Route 53; creating certificates in Venafi and uploading to Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM), using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM); performing configuration management using Cloud Formation; and building log aggregating dashboards, using AWS CloudWatch and Datadog.
• DE designing, developing, and testing large, high-volume, highly available, fault tolerant, and real-time data processing, analytics, and reporting for enterprise applications; performing data engineering, using Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL and SQL queries; and developing secure applications within an Agile environment.

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