Senior Application Engineer

Role Overview

• To research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain systems and product solutions, applying expert knowledge of engineering principles.
• Assist with coordinating activities between multiple disciplines within IT and vendors on both technical and non-technical issues pertaining to computer system hardware and software, network infrastructure, peripheral evaluation, and integration.
• Considered subject matter expert and a key stakeholder/key contributor on complex initiatives and project teams.
• Conduct complex work assignments under limited supervision.
• Cloud Engineering: Delivery of the computing services and the duties associated with it such as designing, planning, administering, developing, or maintaining applications in cloud-based environments.

Requirements

• Significant experience in one or more of the following: systems engineering, software engineering, information systems management, etc. at the enterprise level in a large multi-function organization, preferably at a large financial services organization
• Significant experience with Event driven processing (Confluent Kafka, Precisely CDC, Flink, Ktables and KSQL, Topic and Partitioning strategy, Message delivery guarantees, Producer design, consumer design, streaming, replication, resiliency, failure notification, metrics)
• Significant experience with Object Oriented Programming languages (e.g. Java, Spring, Python, .NET, etc.)
• Significant experience with private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, etc.) Preferences to Azure and Oracle Cloud.
• 8-10 years+ of related work experience
• Significant experience in working with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.)
• Significant experience in building and managing integration with common platforms (e.g., Service Now, Pega, Share point Online, Salesforce, etc.)
• Significant experience with Agile software development practices including Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
• Significant experience with Microsoft Windows and Unix/Linux server operating systems
• Significant experience with modern network enabled relational databases
• Advanced knowledge of Unix and Linux systems
• Advanced knowledge to execute manual and/or automated test cases to identify defects and ensure software quality.
• Advanced knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.) and standard network architectures
• Advanced knowledge of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Advanced knowledge of continuous integration and deployment and tools chain (e.g., GIT, Jenkins, Maven, RunDeck, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of discipline engineering principles, practices, and theories, and methods to identify and solve the highest complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses
• Advanced knowledge of system engineering design methods including requirements analysis and flowdown, specification derivation and interface control documentation
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations
• Significant experience in developing scripts or applications to automate systems implementation, configuration, or management
• Advanced knowledge of project lifecycles and management methodologies
• Significant experience in cloud migration and engineering cloud centric environments
• Significant experience leading systems analysis, design, and architecture efforts
• Significant experience with system architectures in a service oriented and enterprise service business environment
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to learn quickly and apply new concepts, tools and applications
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex system/integration problems through innovative solutions
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Advanced knowledge of banking/financial industry trends, products, and services
• Advanced knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies and procedures
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root causes of issues and provide solutions
• Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
• Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues
• Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Hadoop
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Linux
• Maven
• NoSQL
• Oracle
• Python
• Spark
• Spring
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• Unix
• .NET

Benefits

• Highly competitive pay
• Generous benefits and perks