Mid-level AWS Engineer

Title: Mid-level AWS Engineer (3 - 5 years of experience) Duration: FTE Location: NYC Rate: 130K - 140K annually plus benefits and bonus Visa: US Citizen or GC only (client cannot sponsor) Interview: Phone and in-person Travel: no REDSHIFT is a must have Description: The Principal Software Engineer - Technical Lead (Data Services) will be responsible for the delivery of enterprise data services and data management in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment leveraging a hosted enterprise MDM platform for data management.

Mid-level Software Engineer must work with multiple agile development teams to produce a consistent set of data services that can be utilized for data collection, transformation, management, and distribution across multiple workstreams: Master Data Management (MDM), Data Services, Analytics, e-Commerce and Enterprise Content Management (ECMS) as well as operational applications.

The ideal candidate will drive and champion test-driven and agile development, as well as promoting and evolving best practices within the organization.

The Principal Software Engineer should be hands-on, detail-oriented, self-directed, self-motivated, with a strong capacity for working successfully and flexibly with members across the organization.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES * Serve as Mid-level Engineer and Technical Lead working in partnership with Architecture, Analytics, CMS and integrated Business Systems teams to design, develop and deliver data and integration services across multiple technology domains * Ensure that code adheres to strict standards and best practices for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices, quality, and performance * Identify ways to package new and existing services and capabilities to provide a comprehensive SOA-based platform for data collection and distribution * Model, design, and code REST-based web services, service wrappers, service interfaces, APIs, messaging systems (e.g.

via ESB technologies) and other integration patterns as may be required * Model and implement solutions for different deployment and continuous integration scenarios, and assist in the development of a build/deploy environment * Design databases and data messages exchanged among systems based on evolving standards in the domain * Design and build a reusable, expandable and scalable data services platform that will integrate data from various sources and interfaces that include structured and unstructured data sources * Produce documentation of standards and guidelines for technical and functional audiences, to include working code examples and interface definitions and templates * Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other data service team members * Demonstrate strong Agile mentality and skills and be capable of and willing to coach and support the team * Be a hands-on coder who leads by example and mentors other team members HOW YOU CAN FIT * Strong communications skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people and work with a variety of internal and external development groups * A good foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in basic data structures, graphs, algorithms, JVM concurrency, thread-safe design, OO design and services architecture * Experienced at software performance, scalability, maintainability, reusability, and security * The proponent of Agile practices, scrum, and test-driven development.

Capable and willing to support the scrum master and coach the team as needed * Ability to lead design sessions, provide guidance on development tasking and participate in architecture and code reviews * Work both independently as well as within a team involving technical partners and domain subject matter experts to consistently develop and implement high quality, secure, scalable software within expected time and budget * Ability to operate in a fast-paced agile environment with the ability to change rapidly REQUIREMENTS * Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required * Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in software engineering and design * Experience with back-end data platforms * Strong core Java / Python, OOD, Design Patterns, SOA, REST-based web services * Proficiency with XML/XLST/JSON/JSON-LD * Knowledge of open source technology such as Linux and Apache stacks * Maven, Jenkins or other continuous integration tools * Experience with messaging and ESB * Experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Lambda and S3 * Test-driven development (TDD) methodology and tools * Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j or similar NoSQL DBs * Experience with Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, Hadoop, MapReduce, or Spark * Demonstrable knowledge of both stream and ETL/Batch data aggregation patterns * Multiple DBMS storage engines, models and access methods (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) * Experience with Master Data Management systems such as Stibo STEP, Reltio's SAAS MDM platform, and Informatica MDM In addition, the following experience is beneficial: * Experience with Cloud-based Data Warehousing and Analytics * Experience in web-publishing and product delivery * Experience with WS02, Kong, API/ESB Management Some benefits: * 100% vested of 401(k) Retirement Plan after 5 years employment * Up to 1M worth of supplemental Life Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement * Purchase client stock at a 15% discount