Lead Technology Engineer, Continuous Integration

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

What Will You Do?

• Develops strategic solutions that align with the business objectives and architectural direction of the organization.
• Drives the design and ensures delivery of departmental and corporate programs.
• Leverages infrastructure technology to develop and/or redesign technology solutions.
• Builds, leverages and maintains effective alliances across technical and business community.
• Interacts with customers, vendors, and leadership to achieve effective, strategic, and fiscally responsible results.
• Seen as a technical expert across the organization and the industry.
• Responsible for leading the delivery and execution of solutions to challenging engineering problems.
• Plans and directs all aspects of the organization, including financial/budgetary oversight for team and set of responsibilities.
• Responsible for fulfilling IT audits for respective technologies. Ensures team compliance with IT standards, policies, and governance.
• Responsible for communicating status, strategic direction, and results of assigned work.
• Responsible for coaching, performance management, team development and growth, and workforce planning.
• Direct complex design, development, analysis, configuration, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, documenting, health monitoring/alerting, and implementation based on user or system specifications for impactful and high-visibility tasks.
• Lead investigation and resolution efforts for critical, high impact problems, defects, and incidents.
• Seek opportunities where technology can be utilized to improve the business and provide more efficient processes.
• Define, prioritize and ensure a ready backlog of work for an engineering team, accept final output, focusing on achievement of defined outcomes versus defining how the work is completed.
• Effectively manage a backlog of deliverables and capabilities as well as 'test and learn'/experimentation targeted at defining/refining future deliverables, measuring performance and adjusting the overall roadmap of deliverables as needed.
• Translate business strategies and needs into execution ready work for an engineering team; define team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with circle and value stream vision
• Act as voice of the user; have a deep understanding of and anticipate and proactively seek customer feedback ensuring needs and requirements are clearly defined; ensure team work product meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Own team backlog, including prioritization and refinement; make trade-off decisions to maximize value.
• Inform and participate in business readiness; understand the impact of change, translate the approach to manage adoption and mitigate resistance.
• Provide feedback on work-in-progress, clarify requirements and contribute to removing roadblocks or impediments; look for opportunities for continuous team and process improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Nine years of experience in Technology preferred.
• Three years of experience as a technical lead preferred.
• Expert knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as Network, Database, Server, Storage etc. preferred.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find creative solutions to difficult problems, reflects on solutions, measuring their impact, and uses that information to ideate and optimize.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to develop business partnerships and influence priorities by identifying solutions that are aligned with current business objective and closely follow industry trends relevant to domain, understanding how to apply them, and sharing knowledge with coworkers.
• Adept at making decisions that involve a significant number of factors with broad implications.
• Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document initiatives in a concise and clear manner, collaborate effectively with teammates and others regardless of role, quickly extract core issues from discussions and meetings, give and receive constructive feedback, offer help when asked, and ensure everyone has a chance to share their thoughts and are heard; an attentive and empathetic listener.
• Leadership - Advanced leadership skills with the ability to take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members.
• Experience with the following is required: Jenkins or CloudBees CI, Docker / Kubernetes, Linux
• Experience with the following is preferred: AWS and EKS, Java and Groovy scripting, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, UCD, security scanning tools
• Master level knowledge of one or more of the following technical skills:
• Foundational IT Infrastructure
• Operating Systems
• Software
• Knowledge of process discipline and IDLC methodology

What is a Must Have?

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience, plus five years of experience in Technology required;
• Alternatively, a Master's degree in CS or a related field and three years of work experience in Technology.
• One year of experience as a technical lead required.