Lead Software Engineer

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We are seeking a dynamic and experienced software engineering professional to fill a multifaceted leadership role. This position will spearhead technical innovation, guide and mentor development teams, and drive product ownership, solution design and software delivery in a multi-cloud environment.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Develop highly available, reliable and scalable modern SaaS Cloud-Based solutions.
2. Build, test and deliver micro-service / micro-frontend-oriented systems with quality and security best practices using DevOps, TDD, and Platform Engineering techniques.
3. Prepare, partner, review and provide feedback on customer-focused software designs and architecture using modern software design modeling tools.
4. Plan, prioritize, and complete complex critical priorities as a member of an Agile team.
5. Participate in and/or lead domain-driven software design and code reviews sessions.
6. Contribute and drive team coding and delivery practices using modern version control and analytic tools.
7. Develop and deliver self-healing systems using modern observability tools.
8. Lead, design and plan modernization of systems using containerization and orchestration technologies.
9. Partner and drive the continued improvement of CI/CD build and delivery systems.
10. Drive evaluation and adoption of new innovative technologies and practices.
11. Foster a team focus on improving team SDLC efficiencies and quality practices.
12. Self-educate and improve team agile practices using Vertex’s existing Agile SAFE method.
13. Lead and drive Build-Run team culture fostering improvements in MTTD and MTTR to the benefit of internal and external customers.
14. Participate and lead team practices in Incident Management and On-Call procedures.
15. Partner with PM/TPM on Program level feature prioritization PI over PI.
16. Proactively participate and lead Program, Product and Backlog work breakdown sessions.
17. Maintain Program reporting and tracking in Program Management tools.
18. Partner with PM to lead PI planning, negotiation, and prioritization of team deliverables.
19. Participate and lead demonstration of product features to program stakeholders.
20. Influence organizational peers and mentor senior team members.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Candidate must possess an Advanced proficiency of the following:

Technical

1. Build and delivery of applications and systems on top of AWS, Azure or GCP.
2. Software design patterns with variety OOP and functional programming languages.
3. Design and deliver application enabled enterprise event-driven systems.
4. Apply Enterprise messaging technologies like Pulsar, SNS/SQS, ASB, and/or others.
5. Object-Relational Mapping frameworks like Hibernate, EF, or similar at scale.
6. Design Open API contract-first RESTful services versioned and deprecated at scale.
7. Relational scalable storage using Postgres, MSQL, w/ TSQL query optimizations.
8. Non-Relational database technologies and cloud storage like AWS S3.
9. Scaling application optimization for Network, Memory and IO performance concerns.
10. Observability and monitoring with Open Telemetry, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar.
11. Plan, define and institute application and system metrics like KPIs, SLIs and SLO.
12. Containerization and Orchestration with IaC using Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, TF.
13. CI powered Performance, E2E, Functional and Unit testing using TDD and BDD methods.
14. Full-stack test automation technologies such as Jest, Junit, Cypress, Groovy, Pytest.
15. Source security and analysis technologies like SonarQube, Dependabot, Snyk.
16. CD experience using GitHub Actions, Terraform, Go, PowerShell and/or Python.
17. Exposure to AI automation pair programming with GitHub Copilot or similar.
18. Security experience with OpenID, OAuth, Rapid7, Cobalt.

Interpersonal

1. Must be results oriented, customer focused, acting with urgency and purpose.
2. Ability to make data-driven decisions guided by commitment to customer outcomes.
3. Strong time management, organizational acumen and collaborative partnership to ensure alignment with concurrent stakeholders' commitments and competing priorities.
4. Adaptive verbal and listening skills being clear and concise while practicing empathy to create an environment which fosters trust in which to provide meaningful feedback.
5. Strong written and presentational skills to communicate with a variety of stakeholders representing various customer personas.
6. Passionate hunger for learning and applying emerging technologies.
7. Proven ability to root cause system issues and create/own remediation plans.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

1. B.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent education and experience.
2. Ten (10) plus years of experience in application development.
3. Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Other Qualifications

1. Communicate with Clarity - Be clear, concise and actionable. Be relentlessly constructive. Seek and provide meaningful feedback.
2. Act with Urgency - Adopt an agile mentality - frequent iterations, improved speed, resilience. 80/20 rule – better is the enemy of done. Don’t spend hours when minutes are enough.
3. Work with Purpose - Exhibit a “We Can” mindset. Results outweigh effort. Everyone understands how their role contributes. Set aside personal objectives for team results.
4. Drive to Decision - Cut the swirl with defined deadlines and decision points. Be clear on individual accountability and decision authority. Guided by a commitment to and accountability for customer outcomes.
5. Own the Outcome - Defined milestones, commitments and intended results. Assess your work in context, if you’re unsure, ask. Demonstrate unwavering support for decisions.