ABOUT THE POSITION

The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with Architects, Product Managers, and Agile Leaders to implement and refine technical architectural designs in alignment with enterprise standards, and to deliver software in an agile way with continuous improvement in mind.

Scope of delivery is for a single squad. Sphere of influence is within own squad and peer squads within the same domain or capability area to lead and influence solid design and seamless integration.

Level of complexity of autonomous work: High, Experience level: Senior/Lead

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

- Development :

- Technical Advancement : Employ senior-level DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions, driving advances in quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance. Stay current on technology landscape to find the right tool for every job. Ensure solutions stay modern, simple, and secure.

- Innovation : Explore new technologies and ways of software delivery to advance team/business goals. Identify opportunities for and create proof of concepts to experiment new ideas. Make recommendations based on learnings from POCs. Participate in exploration and evaluation of major systems and tools at a strategic enterprise level.

- Product Backlog & Roadmap Input :



Contribute to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation. Partner with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partner with peer Engineers and the Product Owner to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensure stories have clear understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicate with key partner/dependent squads to understand scope of planned work and translate to impact to own squad. Partner with Product Managers in the domain to inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generate stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, simplification, etc.

- Agile Delivery : Participate in team's agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Help drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team. Lead team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of team's continuous improvement goals.

- Mentoring/Team Development : Mentor individuals in the squad and peers on partner squads on technical delivery. Work to build technical skills in teammates through direction,



example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. Participate in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align.

- Vendor Engagement (as applicable) : Partner with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, framework updates, etc. Influence small-to-mid sized level partners' roadmaps. Perform technical evaluations and make recommendations around new incoming solutions.

YOU ARE

- A leader of communication and alignment across teams, building strong cross‑functional relationships and driving decisions and outcomes in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Someone that identifies, prioritizes, and drives continuous improvement initiatives across business processes and system solutions, ensuring changes are implemented, adopted, and deliver measurable value.
- A tone-setter for learning and adaptability, embracing change and using experimentation and data to guide solution direction and reduce uncertainty for the team.
- A steward of the customer experience, consistently framing technical and delivery decisions through the lens of user impact, stakeholder needs, and long‑term sustainability.
- A force-multiplier that elevates team effectiveness through leadership and collaboration, proactively sharing context, mentoring others, facilitating healthy debate, and constructively engaging stakeholders to move work forward.

YOU HAVE

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering and/or applied relevant experience in technology, or related fields.
- 8+ years of skilled experience
- 5+ years of experien

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