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This position is responsible for participating as a team lead / developer in analyzing and designing highly-complex or business-critical applications, as well as developing, testing, and supporting application software.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective software solutions with an emphasis on quality, best-practice coding standards, and cost-effectiveness

• Participate as a team lead on projects, which includes training, coaching, and sharing technical knowledge with less experienced staff.

• Rapidly identify and resolve technical incidents as they emerge

• Build rapid technical prototypes for early customer validation of new technologies

• Collaborate effectively with Data Science to understand, translate, and integrate methodologies into engineering build pipelines

• Collaborate with product owners to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions, providing leadership in the design and architecture processes.

• Provide expert apprenticeship to project teams on technology strategy, cultivating advanced skill sets in application engineering and implementing modern software engineering practices

• Lead and mentor a team of Software Developers and Senior Software Developers, providing guidance and support in their professional development

• Stay informed about the latest technology and methodology by participating in industry forums, having an active peer network, and engaging actively with customers

• Cultivate a team environment focused on continuous learning, where innovative technologies are developed and refined through collaborative effort

Key Skills

• Domain Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering plus 5-8 years of experience in information technology solutions development and 2-3 years managing teams.

• Proven experience in leading and managing software development teams.

• Must have strong cloud Implementation expertise in cloud architecture.

• Must have the ability to provide solutions utilizing best practices for resilience, scalability, cloud optimization and security.

• Basic project management skills.

• Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience: big data using Apache Spark in developing distributed processing. applications; building applications with immutable infrastructure in the AWS Cloud with automation technologies like Terraform or Ansible or CloudFormation, Cassandra & Elasticsearch.

• Experience in Service-oriented architecture, Spark Streaming, and Git.

• Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services like: Java or Scala, Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, Spark SQL, Presto \ Hive,Cloud (preferably AWS), Docker, RDBMS (such as Postgres and/or Oracle), Linux, Shell scripting, GitLab, Airflow.

• Experience in big data processing tools/languages using Apache Spark Scala.

• Experience with orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools.

• Strong knowledge on Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, python, JSON, YAML.

• Agile scrum experience in application development is required.

• Strong knowledge in AWS S3, PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Strong knowledge in AWS Compute: EC2, EMR, AWS Lambda.

• Strong knowledge in Gitlab /Bitbucket .

• AWS Certification is a plus.

• Mindset and attributes

• Exceptional verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong leadership qualities and the ability to inspire and motivate a team.

• Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and guide the team in execution.