Senior Software Engineer

About You

Using your experience and intellect for solving problems and puzzles and building enterprise class code for solving these puzzles is favorite activity and as natural as breathing. You enjoy being a part of a highly functional team that builds data systems and employs DataOps and MLOps processes to deliver timely, high quality, relevant and trusted data daily to your clients. You value servant leadership and approach every day with a goal of helping to improve your team and the greater organization.

What you will be doing

This role is for a Lead Engineer for one of the teams in our expanding Data Engineering group. You and the team will be responsible for the delivery of the Data Ingestion component of our Enterprise Data Pipeline. This group is also at the forefront of the organizational transformation to Agile development frameworks and pioneering the use of CI/CD pipelines.

What you bring to the group

• Trust and Empathy as an experienced servant leader ideally having lead a remote team or teams. Our engineering team is distributed around the United States and we promote remote-first employment opportunities.
• Engineering lead experience with a track record of shipping scalable data solutions. We deal in TBs of data deliverables with PBs of data as our backbone.
• Strong knowledge and experience with software engineering principles and patterns.
• Experience working with Public Cloud (Amazon Redshift), Hybrid(Cloudera CDP), and On-Prem data systems (Oracle 19 Exadata).
• Strong business acumen and a desire to understand the data domains that support our business partners and clients.

What we hope you also bring to the group

• Strong knowledge of at least one software programming language. We primarily use Python, Spark and Go.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD patterns and practices. We use GitLab as our tool for CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of testing practices and principles.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment. This team is currently using Scrum.
• Strong knowledge of Data Engineering principles and practices.
• Comfortable with supporting a production outage at any time of the day.
• Knowledge of event driven and API engineering.
• 7-10 years of experience in software engineering.

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Benefits of Working in ICON:Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.We offer very competitive salary packages. And to keep them competitive, we regularly benchmark them against our competitors. Our annual bonuses reflect delivery of performance goals – both ours and yours.We also provide a range of health-related benefits to employees and their families and offer competitive retirement plans – and related benefits such as life assurance – so you can save and plan with confidence for the years ahead.But beyond the competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, you’ll benefit from an environment where you are encouraged to fulfil your sense of purpose and drive lasting change.ICON is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.