Assoc Director-Technology II

Job Overview

Job Description:

About the Company

At AT&T, we're connecting the world through the latest tech, top-of-the-line communications and the best in entertainment. Our groundbreaking digital solutions provide intuitive and integrated experiences for millions of customers across online, retail and care channels. Join our mission to deliver compelling communication and entertainment experiences to customers around the world as we continue to evolve as a technology-powered, human-centered organization. As part of our team, you'll transform the way we deliver a seamless customer experience with digital at the center of all you do. In our world, digital is much larger than just an eCommerce channel, we are transforming all channels to digitally perform as one team to create a better customer experience. As we move through 2023/4, the digital transformation will revolutionize the digital space and you can build a career that will propel your future.

About the Team

The Machine Learning Decisioning team is focused on supporting consumer business processes relevant to service, support, and sales optimization. Using customer data, data science, and machine learning, the team supports and creates platform solutions that power omnichannel personalized customer journeys across all customer touchpoints.

About the Job

AT&T Machine Learning Decisioning team is looking for an Associate Director who is passionate about building scalable and performant systems and has analytical and multi-tasking abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. As an Associate Director, you will be responsible for the design and development of the underlying SW cloud-based platform running our various initiatives for AT&T's customer and employee omnichannel experience across our consumer distribution channels. You will manage and lead the software product development life cycle including architecture, design, development and support. Your charge will be to convert our containerized platform components into a self-service PAAS exposed to internal and external teams. Our is a pure DevSecOps agile team. You must possess strong technical background to ensure you are designing modular & scalable web components, you must have experience leading large cross-organizational software development projects and have a well-rounded technical background in current data science, web and micro-service technologies.

Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View:

• Lead the strategic alignment of platform development roadmaps to application use case and enterprise strategies.

• Provide technical design and architectural leadership to multiple teams and projects to help ensure applications are integrated and adhere to stated architectural and design principles and standards while having the opportunity to remain in a hands-on engineering role.

• Drive efforts to architect, design, develop, and implement technology-enabled business and technical information solutions encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.

• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, rationalization opportunities, standard processes, tools and techniques to further the firm's application and enterprise technology architecture strategies.

• Review business process and technical solution designs to help ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technologies.

• Provide functional and technical leadership to other Lead Engineers, Architects, Product Managers and Quality Analysts.

• Enforce company policies in the areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management and compliance.

• Perform complex engineering activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production support.

• Supervise a team of 50 or more employees along with contractors

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 10+ years of experience in working in Engineering or Development roles
• 8+ years of progressive experience in one or more of the following areas: application delivery; subject matter expertise in building Java-based high-volume/high-transaction applications
• 2+ years of experience with data science and machine learning modeling techniques & approaches
• 4+ years of experience with leading and managing teams

Technical Skills:

Azure, Java, REST services, NoSql technologies (Cassandra/MongoDb), Kafka/MQ/Rabbit, Redis/Hazelcast, Git, Jira, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, React.js, Python, R

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in architecture and design of systems using Micro services architecture

• 5+ years of experience in a leadership capacity - coaching and mentoring engineers, developers

• 2+ years of experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef or Terraform

• 2+ years of experience in build and CICD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar

• 3+ years of experience with data science and machine learning modeling techniques & approaches

• 2+ years of experience in Unit and Function testing using Junit, Spock, Mockito/JMock, Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI or Postman

• Experience in building multi-channel or multi-tenant aware commerce platforms

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux command line

• Expert knowledge and experience working with asynchronous message processing, stream processing and event driven computing.

• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban development team

• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks

• Certified in Java, Spring or Azure technologies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

• 401(k) plan

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Caregiver Leave

• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected

• Adoption Reimbursement

• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

• Life and Accidental Death Insurance

• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal

• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

• Extensive employee wellness programs

• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

AT&T is leading the way to the future - for customers, businesses and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we've built a premier integrated communications and entertainment company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined. Apply now!

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Salary Range:

$155,400.00 - $261,100.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Job ID R-7254 Date posted 04/05/2024 Apply Now