Mid-Level AWS Engineer

Title: Mid-level AWS Engineer (3 - 5 years of experience)

Duration: FTE

Location: NYC

Rate: 130K - 140K annually plus benefits and bonus

Visa: US Citizen or GC only (client cannot sponsor)

Interview: Phone and in-person

Travel: no

REDSHIFT is a must have

Description:

The Principal Software Engineer - Technical Lead (Data Services) will be responsible for the delivery of enterprise data services and data management in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment leveraging a hosted enterprise MDM platform for data management. Mid-level Software Engineer must work with multiple agile development teams to produce a consistent set of data services that can be utilized for data collection, transformation, management, and distribution across multiple workstreams: Master Data Management (MDM), Data Services, Analytics, e-Commerce and Enterprise Content Management (ECMS) as well as operational applications. The ideal candidate will drive and champion test-driven and agile development, as well as promoting and evolving best practices within the organization. The Principal Software Engineer should be hands-on, detail-oriented, self-directed, self-motivated, with a strong capacity for working successfully and flexibly with members across the organization.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as Mid-level Engineer and Technical Lead working in partnership with Architecture, Analytics, CMS and integrated Business Systems teams to design, develop and deliver data and integration services across multiple technology domains

• Ensure that code adheres to strict standards and best practices for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices, quality, and performance

• Identify ways to package new and existing services and capabilities to provide a comprehensive SOA-based platform for data collection and distribution

• Model, design, and code REST-based web services, service wrappers, service interfaces, APIs, messaging systems (e.g. via ESB technologies) and other integration patterns as may be required

• Model and implement solutions for different deployment and continuous integration scenarios, and assist in the development of a build/deploy environment

• Design databases and data messages exchanged among systems based on evolving standards in the domain

• Design and build a reusable, expandable and scalable data services platform that will integrate data from various sources and interfaces that include structured and unstructured data sources

• Produce documentation of standards and guidelines for technical and functional audiences, to include working code examples and interface definitions and templates

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other data service team members

• Demonstrate strong Agile mentality and skills and be capable of and willing to coach and support the team

• Be a hands-on coder who leads by example and mentors other team members

HOW YOU CAN FIT

• Strong communications skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people and work with a variety of internal and external development groups

• A good foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in basic data structures, graphs, algorithms, JVM concurrency, thread-safe design, OO design and services architecture

• Experienced at software performance, scalability, maintainability, reusability, and security

• The proponent of Agile practices, scrum, and test-driven development. Capable and willing to support the scrum master and coach the team as needed

• Ability to lead design sessions, provide guidance on development tasking and participate in architecture and code reviews

• Work both independently as well as within a team involving technical partners and domain subject matter experts to consistently develop and implement high quality, secure, scalable software within expected time and budget

• Ability to operate in a fast-paced agile environment with the ability to change rapidly

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required

• Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in software engineering and design

• Experience with back-end data platforms

• Strong core Java / Python, OOD, Design Patterns, SOA, REST-based web services

• Proficiency with XML/XLST/JSON/JSON-LD

• Knowledge of open source technology such as Linux and Apache stacks

• Maven, Jenkins or other continuous integration tools

• Experience with messaging and ESB

• Experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Lambda and S3

• Test-driven development (TDD) methodology and tools

• Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j or similar NoSQL DBs

• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, Hadoop, MapReduce, or Spark

• Demonstrable knowledge of both stream and ETL/Batch data aggregation patterns

• Multiple DBMS storage engines, models and access methods (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle)

• Experience with Master Data Management systems such as Stibo STEP, Reltio's SAAS MDM platform, and Informatica MDM

In addition, the following experience is beneficial:

• Experience with Cloud-based Data Warehousing and Analytics

• Experience in web-publishing and product delivery

• Experience with WS02, Kong, API/ESB Management

Some benefits:

• 100% vested of 401(k) Retirement Plan after 5 years employment

• Up to 1M worth of supplemental Life Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Purchase client stock at a 15% discount