Distinguished Engineer - Java / AWS - Zelle

About the role

This position reports to the VP of Zelle Engineering and functions as a strategic individual contributor expected to solve enterprise-wide problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. The incumbent must be an expert in the realm of large scale, enterprise systems, understanding both design, enhancement, and growth of complex systems and collaboration with teams and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Leads the Zelle journey to the cloud.
• Drives best practices, architectures, and technology decisions inside the Zelle organization utilizing knowledge and lessons-learned from building enterprise-scale systems in the cloud.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and potentially external collaboration partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years.
• Maintains a very high bar for execution and excellence in the Engineering team, fostering leadership and executive presence throughout; can 'coach up' team members and leaders for a highly engaged, high-performing team, and participates in hiring top talent into the team to support these large-scale efforts.
• Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid "big bang" delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery.
• Builds and delivers well-considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Data, Architecture and Operations organizations.
• Safeguards software development following effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization.
• Safeguards accurate/reliable information within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations.
• Safeguards solutions built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, scalability, etc.).
• Keeps executive-level management informed of department progress and problems.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.

Requirements

Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. Typically requires 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 10 years leading technology initiatives or processes. Must have 5+ years of experience working with large-scale cloud systems and building application solutions using modern practices such as containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and adherence to security guidelines. Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases. Superior leadership and management skills together with strong business acumen. Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills. Demonstrated experience with state-of-the-art technology, architecture and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security. A deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results. Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors. Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications

• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically requires 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 10 years leading technology initiatives or processes.
• Must have 5+ years of experience working with large-scale cloud systems and building application solutions using modern practices such as containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and adherence to security guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases.
• Superior leadership and management skills together with strong business acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience with state-of-the-art technology, architecture and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.
• A deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors.
• Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Skills

• Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with migrating application & data services from on-prem to Cloud.

Benefits

The Base Pay Scale For This Position In Phoenix, AZ in USD per year is: $206,000 - $275,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate's education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers).