Associate Director Technology (DevSecOps)

$143,800 - $215,800/Yr

AT&T - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Manager

Dallas, TX

Telecommunications

About the position

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won't just imagine the future-you'll create it. Our Product Development group, part of AT&T's Technology Services (ATS) organization, is responsible for building software-based products, services, and platforms that our customers love and need. Harnessing technology and rebuilding software expertise, the team is inspiring simplicity with projects that deliver revenue and cost savings opportunities. We're hiring for a leader of full stack development with a strong background in cross-platform software engineering, cybersecurity, and experience with growing teams and delivering projects. This opportunity will support the transformation of our industry standard order and delivery management systems. You will scale teams that work (end-to-end) on new and existing features, enhancements, and defect resolution on one or more of AT&T's software systems and platforms. The position requires close collaboration with U.S based Product Management, Business Systems, and Operations teams throughout system development life cycles. To be successful in this technical leadership role, you have an active background in software engineering with extensive middleware and databases expertise and experience with security best practices and with support of software within a production environment. When required, you will have the capability to engage at a design & code review level. You will have experience in managing software development teams and are expected to have good leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. You will need a deep understanding of software methodologies and the ability to balance technical expertise with business acumen. Ideally, you may have had previous experience in a rapid-growth start-up enterprise. Alternatively, you have likely worked within an international environment and possess the entrepreneurial mindset to build and successfully mentor teams of software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and trouble-shoot scalable and reusable software systems: 3-tier and cloud-based systems.
• Direct experience with development environments, quality assurance test automation and continuous integration/delivery, and product deployments and operational support.
• Actively support configuration management of code and software.
• Actively support security reviews and patch management.
• Support detailed documentation of systems and features.
• Act as liaison between external vendors and internal product, business, engineering, and design teams.
• Provide (technical) leadership to build, motivate, guide, scale, and mentor team members including performance management coaching.
• Actively participate in coding exercises and peer code reviews as part of the development life cycles and change management.
• Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings.

Requirements

• Extensive full stack engineering experience, with an emphasis on backend infrastructure programming, ideally a minimum of 7-10+ years.
• Strong technical team leadership and project delivery including via vendors.
• Extensive experience, ideally a minimum of 7-10+ years in software architecture.
• Linux/Unix system programming and opensource frameworks experience (e.g., gcc/C).
• Object-oriented programming experience (e.g., C++, Java, etc.).
• Code reviews and analyzers.
• Secure network protocol and tools experience (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP(S), IPv4, Wireshark, etc.).
• Web API experience and architectural styles (e.g., REST).
• Python or other scripting language experience.
• Considerable experience, ideally a minimum of 7+ years in modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React).
• Test automation development (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, etc.).
• Configuration management experience (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, etc.).

Nice-to-haves

• Database concepts: relational, NoSQL, and modeling.
• Cloud-based technologies (e.g., Azure, AWS, etc.).
• Container technologies (e.g., Docker, etc.).
• Software methodologies (waterfall, scrum, etc.).
• Microservices.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone