Engineer Lead FDE - Platform and Automation

Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Owes the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
• Captions on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
• Owes the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team.
• Ledges multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.
• Ledges vendor evaluation and analysis.

  Minimum Requirements

  • A BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi-platform, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

  Preferred Skills, Capabilities And Experiences

  • Proficiency with Python and/or JavaScript for automation, integration, and building lightweight services/tools.
  • Strong working knowledge of Git-based version control (branching strategies, pull requests, code review workflows).
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., automated build/test/deploy, approvals, environment promotions).
  • Cloud fundamentals (compute, storage, networking, IAM) and comfort working in at least one major cloud provider environment.
  • Experience designing and integrating with APIs (REST/JSON; authentication patterns such as OAuth2, API keys; basic API documentation).
  • Hands-on experience with Docker/container basics (Dockerfiles, images, containers, local development workflows; container troubleshooting).
  • Familiarity with observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and incident triage/root cause analysis.
  • Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Bash/PowerShell) to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual effort.
  • Understanding of basic DevSecOps concepts, including secure SDLC practices, dependency management, secrets handling, least privilege access, and vulnerability scanning fundamentals.
  • Experience mentoring others and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred.