| Location: Shoreland Job Description: - Negotiate complex decisions, present options and persuasively advocate for optimal technical solutions, internally and externally.
- Provide technical leadership and effectively mentor interns and less experienced members.
- Participate in the hiring process and provide fair and productive interview feedback.
- Provide appropriate written documentation of project development and programming code.
- Responsible for design and implementation of top priority technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting the required level of quality.
- Provide support and maintenance for existing applications.
- Contribute to definitions of technical specifications and review implementation standards. Review peerâ™s code, perform code testing and ensure appropriate implementation standards are met.
- Review and analyze business and technical requirements.
- Designs new systems, features, and tools. Solves complex problems and identifies opportunities for technical improvement and performance optimization. Reviews and tests code to ensure appropriate standards are met.
- Utilizes technical knowledge of existing and emerging technologies, including public cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Acts as a technical consultant and resource for faculty research, teaching, and/or administrative projects.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications Education: - Master's or Doctoral degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a related field.
Experience: - 5+ years of relevant software development experience, full cycle preferred, including design, coding, testing, and support.
- Expert programming skills using Python (preferred), Golang/Javascript (a plus), or other languages like C/C++, Java, or C#.
- Knowledge of web applications, REST API, microservices, and containers.
- Knowledge of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Spark, Hadoop, and data analysis.
- Knowledge of configuration management utilities (Chef, Salt, Ansible) and container-based deployment solutions (Docker, Kubernetes).
- High performance/cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP, Openstack).
- Unix/Linux programming, open source, and version control experience.
- Experience with CI/CD and Agile methodologies.
- Ability to take and provide constructive and helpful input and feedback on technical issues. Â Â
Preferred Competencies - Ability to collaborate with team members and help define guidelines and best practices.
- Ability to elaborate on technical solutions internally and externally when required.
- Ability to take and provide constructive and helpful input and feedback on technical issues.
- Confidentiality related to sensitive matters such as strategic initiatives, trade secrets, quiet periods, and scientific discoveries yet to be put in the public domain.
- Ability to persuade others to adopt new structures or systems in order to meet objectives.
- Ability to prioritize and manage workload to meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
- Ability to take a broad plan and break it into incremental tasks and ensurethe completion of each task,meeting the required level of quality.
- Ability to work in a collaborative team used to minimal supervision and oversight and ensure accountability for deliverables and outcomes.
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