Technical Application Engineering Lead

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Application Engineering Lead to lead our data engineering projects, focusing on cloud enablement for our applications and data. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a strategic mindset to deliver scalable and efficient solutions for complex business problems.

What you’ll do

• Lead Data Engineering projects for cloud enablement of apps and data

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures

• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed

• Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale

• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters

• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure

• Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS

• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers

• Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions

• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs

• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams

• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices

• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books

• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

• Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions

• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What experience you need  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ of professional experience in software engineering.

• Hands-on experience in writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS

• Strong experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure and experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions

• Extensive experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes

• Hands-on experience in deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

• 5+ years experience in SFTP (Globalscape etc.) tools

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Strong leadership qualities

• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts

• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps

• Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets

• Working in a highly regulated environment

• Experience designing and developing  big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others

• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)

• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices 

• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)

• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)

• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

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