Lead Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management

Overview

The mission of the Identity and Access team is to enable the digital workforce of the Chick-fil-A enterprise to have the right access to the right digital resources at the right time. We are a fast-paced team that partners with multiple teams across the enterprise to enable business outcomes.

This Lead Software Engineer in Identity and Access Management (IAM) is pivotal in ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable integrations across our product and service suite. This role is instrumental in architecting and building our cloud products that support the enterprise, emphasizing the criticality of robust IAM solutions. A crucial aspect of this role is collaborating with members of the larger Identity team to grasp the intricacies of the complex identity ecosystem, thereby ensuring optimal solutions for our users. Additionally, this role will be responsible for migrating complex legacy systems from on-prem data centers to the cloud, ensuring a seamless transition and maintaining system integrity.

This role requires a deep technical knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, cloud product architecture, and legacy system migration. They should demonstrate a natural curiosity to unravel the complexities of the identity ecosystem. Strong internal collaboration and communication skills are essential.As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader on an agile, product-focused team where you can influence the product direction, system architecture and engineering patterns, while mentoring other staff engineers. You will set the standard for code contribution on your team while keeping the systems you are responsible for running, stable and secure. You will leverage and contribute to existing frameworks while following and extending accepted architectural patterns.

Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

Responsibilities

• Own the solution architecture decisions for your team's product.

• Lead delivery and operations of the team's product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team's engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves.

• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories.

• Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers.

• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards.

• Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches.

• Delegate engineering assignments & assess engineering performance.

• Help provide support for the portfolio of solutions the team owns.

• Understand specific business processes and requirements and translate them to software functional requirements.

• Possess a deep technical knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, cloud product architecture, and legacy system migration.

Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights.  The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience designing complex software solutions

• Expert-level knowledge in design and programming using Java, JavaScript, or Python or other comparable languages

• Experience with Relational and Non-Relational databases

• Experience mentoring and leading a team

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with Agile principles as applied to software development

• Experience developing and deploying applications via cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, Scrum discipline, or comparable software development practices

• Experience developing and delivering microservices

• Deep understanding of AWS architecture

• Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git desirable

• Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups

• Experience in design, data collection, and data analysis

Minimum Years of Experience

3

Travel Requirements

10%

Required Level of Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelors Degree

Major/Concentration

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related Technical Field