Specialist Software Engineering
Denver, CO

Job Description

Job FamilySoftware Engineer

Job Description SummaryThe Specialist Software Engineer is focused on the design and development of web and cloud technologies to support an agile digital business. Helps define web and cloud strategies, grow capabilities, and develops enterprise-wide solutions by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the application solution space, and guidance in design, framework, and platform decisions.Job Description

* Responsibilities
* Lead analysis and complex architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions; translate architectural guidance into detailed technical design.
* Lead committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines.
* Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
* Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies.
* Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions.
* Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies;
* Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
* Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions.
* Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees.
* Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
* Prepare presentations and lead development meetings.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience
* Six years of Core Java or.NET experience
* Expertise in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
* Five years of experience and expertise in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model)
* In-depth knowledge of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)
* Three years of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
* Expertise in build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)
* Expertise in developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)
* Five years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
* Expertise with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper)
* Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline
* Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax)
* Advanced understanding of software development and research tools
* Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently
* Analytical and problem-solving skills
* Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization
* Problem-solving and technical communication skills
* Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

* Master's degree
* Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
* Experience with big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture
* Experience with data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL.
* Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
* Knowledge of the financial services industry

Working Conditions

* Office environment
* Work outside of normal business hours may be required
* Moderate travel



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