Principal Data & Integration AWS Engineer - Fully Remote

About the position

This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from the comfort of your own home from anywhere in the US. The role will lead agile software development efforts as a Technical Leader, responding to audits and contributing to the RFP process. You will ensure data governance and best practices are embraced, and be responsible for understanding business and IT strategy to align with outcomes. As a hands-on Data and Integration Engineer, you will write quality code, assist with problem solving, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and coaching. You will define improvements to increase system reliability, security, and performance, and perform rich data visualizations and presentations to senior management on value adds. You may manage a team and participate in defining strategic IT objectives, leading subordinates toward that strategic vision for their products. This includes acting as the primary focal point for both internal and external customers for software development tasks, providing updates to both the user community and the programmers, and monitoring projects to guide them to successful completion.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile software development efforts as a Technical Leader.
• Respond to audits and contribute to the RFP process.
• Ensure data governance and best practices are embraced.
• Understand business and IT strategy to align with outcomes.
• Write quality code and assist with problem solving, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Define improvements to increase system reliability, security, and performance.
• Perform rich data visualizations and presentations to senior management.
• Manage a team and participate in defining strategic IT objectives.
• Act as the primary focal point for both internal and external customers for software development tasks.
• Provide updates to both the user community and the programmers.
• Monitor projects, determine potential problems, and guide them to successful completion.
• Make assignments and monitor tasks to ensure all work is accomplished.
• Assist with budget preparation and management.
• Mentor and evaluate staff performance.
• Track all project requests in functional area and update status of projects regularly.
• Assist in estimating work effort associated with new project requests.
• Participate in planning and budgeting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, especially RDS, S3, ECS, and Lambda.
• Working knowledge of queuing and asynchronous processing.
• Previous experience with Agile/Scrum software development cycles.
• Proficient with SQL.
• Exposure to SnapLogic ETL tool preferred.
• 6+ years related experience including a minimum of 3-4 years of designing, building and maintaining high quality, secure software in IT.
• Critical thinker with demonstrated problem solving techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• ServiceNow training.
• Agile and Design Thinking (Coursera).

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, life, and voluntary benefits.
• Short-term incentives may be available.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Focus on total health and wellness.