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 work streams:
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 Mongo

DB, Cassandra, Neo4j or similar No

SQL DBs

* Experience with Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Map Reduce, 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…