DescriptionThe Advanced Software Engineer will support a backend focus team that requires the translation of consumer needs into use cases for Delivery from our Publication Platform. They will cover a variety of technologies including but not limited to Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS and Databricks.
Accountable for proactively leading or supporting software engineering activities that create deliverables that guide the direction, development, and delivery of software solutions that meet business needs. Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to deliver critical business solutions. Develop target-state guidance (i.e., reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) to evolve the organization's development process. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and, safety.
Responsibilities- Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase
- Lead the development implementation of technology strategy within a defined set of teams. Executes against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy
- Oversee the implementation of enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance
- Provide technical leadership to ensure clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
- Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and, transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
- Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the budgeting or other capital planning processes
- Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership to shape sound architectural decisions
- Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
- Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices
- Promote the capture and reuse of intellectual capital, including code objects and components
- Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures and, other design documents
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
-The engineer will split their time between regular Delivery events, code creation, DevsOps like maintaining CI/CD, meeting with Product peers, designing architecture and solution implementation
QualificationsMinimum
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or in a STEM major
- Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
- Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations
- Understanding of network and security architecture
- Demonstrated written, oral and, presentation/public speaking communication skills
- Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level
Desired
- Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment
- Experience building solutions using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)
-API Development including experience with modern tool suite (i.e. Postman), Enterprise application design, Scrum principles, paired /Xtreme/mob programming methodologies
