Full-Stack Engineer - Production Management

About Client:
Client is a leading provider of digital transformation services and solutions, helping organizations leverage technology to drive innovation, accelerate growth, and enhance customer experiences in the digital era. With a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes and maximizing value for clients, Client combines deep industry expertise, advanced technology capabilities, and agile methodologies to deliver end-to-end digital solutions that enable clients to stay ahead of the competition and thrive in today's dynamic marketplace.

Salary Rate: $120000 - $180000/Annum

Location:

New York City, NY
Senior Full-Stack Engineer in Production Management
Development of AI-enabled Tooling

Description:
Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the Production Management division, will be responsible for the development and overall implementation of AI-enabled web applications in a complex, critical and large cross-departmental and multi-disciplinary area.
The role is part of a multi-year transformation journey that will require a successful candidate to establish best practices, motivate and promote a cultural shift that will ensure a successful adoption of Engineering Principles and Practices within Production Management.
The role requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Accountable for delivery of a full range of end-to-end projects.
Excellent communication skills required to negotiate internally.
Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.


Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and how it integrates within the overall technology landscape to deliver scalable, reliable and resilient applications.
• Ability to operate in a global environment with on-/near-/off-shore matrix reporting structures.
• Operates into a highly regulated environment that requires in-depth understanding of the regulatory requirements and the industry implications for our technologies.
• Improve the service level the team provides to our end users, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices.
• Drives Continuous Delivery and Automation efforts across the supported applications by means of Root Cause Analysis reviews, Knowledge management, Performance tuning, and user training.
• Fosters a culture that promotes transparency and innovation for increased team productivity.
• Coaching members of the team and outside the immediate reporting line about the best practices and recognises anti-patterns that are quickly addressed.
• Implements the Agile Framework through one of its implementations like SCRUM or Kanban and ensures it integrates with overall organisation processes.
• Avidly communicates progress and project status across the organisation and ensures that stakeholders are managed appropriately throughout the execution period.

• Relevant experience in a critical software development role with high business impact, ability to understand how software delivers business value
• Excellent engineering skills and senior architecture
• Excellent working knowledge of key computer science concepts (networking, operating systems, virtualisation, containerisation, etc.)
• Polyglot full-stack developer mentality and ability to pick up new languages and skills
• Excellent understanding of Software Engineering concepts like Software Development Life Cycle and Git Ops
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application and database stacks
• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh, like Istio, is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) is a highly desirable
• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, App Dynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable
• Degree in computer science/mathematics/physics or related technical subject is desirable
• Experience of senior stakeholder management
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills