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Manager of Software Engineering
As a Manager of Software Engineering, you'll be a leader and contributor on one or more Scrum/DevOps teams. You'll focus on analyzing, developing, testing, and supporting highly complex application software.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the building of scalable, reliable, cost-effective solutions for both the Cloud and on-premises.
- Easily comprehend and convert business requirements into technical solutions.
- Understand current technologies and have experience with legacy technologies. Recognize when the architecture needs to change to meet requirements. Understand system test principles and best practices.
- Write or edit technical documentation to support analysis and design recommendations and drafts.
- Lead teams in building and testing software code in current technologies and legacy applications. Knowledge of legacy technologies is a plus.
- Understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
- Lead teams in building platform reusable code and components that could be used by multiple project teams.
- Provide cloud integration development support to various project teams.
- Maintain and document standards, best practices, and design/architecture patterns.
- Provide support to internal users and support staff.
- Assess incident resolution and estimate application changes.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 7 years and a Master's degree.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Experience leading teams in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java, Python, and strong in SQL and Oracle.
- Frontend Technology Skills Set: JavaScript, Grails, SQL, and shell scripting experience.
- Backend Technology Skills Set: AWS and/or Oracle Cloud experience, Java, ETL Tools (Informatica, Talend, ODI), Strong SQL knowledge, Python, Scripting.
- Other desired skill sets: Airflow, GitLab, Parquet File processing.
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, Python.
- Agile scrum experience in application development is required.
- Strong knowledge desirable in AWS S3, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Deployment and automation: Terraform, Cloud Formation would be a plus.
- Strong knowledge in GitLab/Bitbucket.
- Legacy technology such as Struts is a plus.
- Strong knowledge in Compute: EC2, EMR, AWS Lambda.is a Plus.
- AWS Certification is a plus.