Sr. Engineering Manager

Description

• Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements.
• Identifies and when necessary, proposes variances to the architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Leads and facilitates the domain’s architecture governance process
• Reviews and approves recommendations to architectural standards at a domain level.
• Works with business leadership to help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy
• Provides recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing and deployment.
• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.
• Facilitates and leads the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
• Contributes to the development of software and hardware delivery platforms with reusable components that can be orchestrated together into different methods for different business.
• Keeps technology and service managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.
• Effectively build relationships and collaborate with stakeholders and strategic outsource partners.
• Identifies the tools and components used within the domain based on the enterprise toolset and can define exceptions as warranted.
• Develops the solution viewpoint, in which the business, information and technology viewpoints are synthesized into solutions that deliver capabilities to the enterprise.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support initiatives.
• Review architectural compliance but identify exceptions to accommodate project needs
• Develop and drive domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines and procedures.
• Designs enterprise strategy, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Leads the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.
• Works closely with project management to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
• Analyzes the current architecture, identify weaknesses and opportunities for improvements.
• Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain.
• Designs and leads the implementation of a solution architecture based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of modern software delivery processes and Agile-based SDLC
• Bachelor’s and/or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Comp. Eng.
• Have an automation mindset, if a task needs to be repeated in needs to be automated with software.
• Middleware/Integration frameworks – Fuse, Zapier, Apache Camel
• Atlassian Suite based Application Lifecycle Management leveraging Pipelines, Jenkins, Git
• Hands on with using native AWS cloud technologies
• Minimum of ten (10) years of software development experience is required; minimum five (5) years’ experience managing/leading others
• Management skills necessary for planning, organizing and prioritizing workloads.
• Experience architecting, designing and developing full stack microservice based web/enterprise SaaS applications using REST/HATEOAS APIs, JS libraries (React, Node, Lookout, Ember, Backbone), Java, Hibernate, HTTP, Apache Tomcat, JSON, Google Protocol Buffers, Python
• Exemplifies leadership characteristics in support of corporate objectives
• Ability to translate complicated business requirements into multiple solution options and explain the pros/cons of various approaches
• Experience with Java and .NET development stacks
• Strong leadership skills; ability to provide direction, motivation and feedback to employees; achieve project objectives through the work of others.
• A minimum of 10 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle mgmt.., infrastructure planning and operations.
• Messaging servers – ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, Rabbit MQ
• Experience migrating client server application to native cloud applications.
• DB architectural, development, and admin. experience in MySQL, Aurora, Postgres, SQLite
• Minimum of three (3) years in the payment industry
• Experience in defining and driving Architectural Deliverables, reusable frameworks and assisting program through various SDLC phases.
• Experience architecting, designing and developing SaaS-based and embedded software
• Strong knowledge of multi-tiered application environments, including their design, implementation and capacity/scaling challenges
• Experience in developing current and future State Architectures with Roadmap and Release Plan.
• Experience working in a global team-oriented culture and environment
• Architect SaaS and Embedded System solutions in a cohesive architecture
• Excellent analytical, problem solving skills with a methodical approach to problem resolution across large scale distributed platforms
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage multiple priorities and work under deadlines.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Experience designing electrical and mechanical systems.
• Expert in Agile Methodology - Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban, Scrum

Benefits

• Competitive health insurance plans and 401(k) match, with benefits starting day one
• Educational assistance, leadership development programs, and recognition programs
• Generous and flexible paid time off including paid personal time off, caregiver, parental, and volunteer leave
• Competitive and performance-based compensation packages and bonus plans

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance