Lead Software Engineer

We are excited to announce an opening for a Lead Software Engineer. Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities. Participates as a senior team member in the design, development, and maintenance of multi-tiered business applications. Individuals holding this position are typically expected to be mentors from technical and delivery perspectives, as well as work independently as a member of a team. Incumbents have a thorough understanding of the available technology landscape, tools, and existing designs. This individual also participates fully in all team practices and standards. This role interfaces with IT colleagues and other stakeholders to evaluate defined complex business requirements and processes, assesses available technologies, determines infrastructure, and recommends solution options. Incumbents play a significant role in building application solutions, which may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools. Demonstrates personal accountability and actively engages the team in demonstrating accountability.

Supports quality efforts within the team.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Analysis and Design:

• Consideration of the enterprise architecture, including authoritative sources of data, data and systems integration, and interrelationships across multiple subject areas (including transformation rules). Participates in and leads design reviews.
• Contributes to the product backlogs. Assists in scheduling backlog items in the optimal execution order and ensures that the backlog is comprehensive.
• Advocates adoption of enterprise initiatives. Helps develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments as appropriate to ensure successful implementation and support efforts.
• Analyzes the impact of requirements and works with solution architects on software solutions.
• Must consider usability, extensibility, efficiency, and performance during all phases of development.
• Applies design patterns to build secure, maintainable, testable, and evolvable software to ensure coherence across applications.
• Participates in designing software solutions and prepares technical documentation, taking into

Development:

• Estimation: Develops and facilitates technical estimates and timeframes without having complete information and provides a confidence level in the estimate. Mentors others in good estimation techniques
• Coding: Mentors developers in the design and construction of complex business applications and prepares technical specifications to develop software solutions. Leads by example in adopting architectural principles and security standards. Leads the evolution and improvement of these standards and practices. Develops software to transform and migrate data across environments. Actively participates in peer code reviews and is responsible for code quality.
• Test Automation: Responsible for writing pre-deployment automated tests for any delivered code. Participates in testing and debugging of the overall system as required. Reviews automated test code to ensure appropriate test coverage. Demonstrates ability to set up and monitor automated tests in the CICD pipeline. Makes decisions regarding where to focus and improve the efficiency, coverage, and stability of automated tests. Participates in coding and maintenance of post-deployment test automation frameworks.
• Support: Supports and plans effort to implement application in production and support post-production. Ensures development work includes detailed, high-quality documentation at an appropriate level to allow for maintenance and support. Plans and executes reduction of technical debt and mitigates risks associated with upgrades

Research:

• Participates in continuous improvement through experimentation to stay abreast of the changing technological landscape and clearly articulates and presents value to the product organization.
• Engages in delivery of applicable enterprise initiatives.
• Actively participates within learning forums and contributes to setting forum objectives.
• Deeply understands the technology/business landscape.

Leadership:

• Encourages team member contribution within design and implementation efforts within product teams.
• Serves as a role model in delivery accountability, process, and mindset.
• Demonstrates and continuously broadens technical capabilities and domain knowledge so that an individual could serve effectively on a variety of product teams.
• Enables successful outcomes on teams by proactively identifying and raising transparency of impediments.
• Mentors junior team members. Fosters teamwork and excellent communication among team members.
• Provides meaningful feedback.

Requirements:

• Must Have Skills: Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes DevSecOps security tooling integration and orchestration, and C# or Python.
• Skills Required: C# or Python, CI/CD Pipelines, CI/CD, Azure, Kubernetes, DevSecOps.
• 5+ years of experience required to perform essential job functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): 7+ years of application development experience with large-scale business applications in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.
• 5+ years designing, developing, and implementing business applications from business concept through production.
• Object-oriented design, development, and implementation of business applications in current computing architectures.
• Working knowledge of relevant technologies: front-end tools, middleware, databases, ORMs, development frameworks, design patterns, API design, test automation, DevOps, cloud architecture, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to demonstrate skills in solving complex problems within and across teams.
• Strong analytical skills required. Ability to develop accurate estimates for complex solutions and bring transparency to the estimation process.
• Demonstrates drive to align estimates to meet organizational goals.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required. Strong work ethic and ability to demonstrate personal accountability for successful product delivery.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to translate technical concepts to the appropriate level of the audience.
• Ability to work self-directed as part of a cross-functional team and show commitment to the product and team.
• Instills a sense of urgency in the team and focuses the team on efficient delivery.
• Ability to present technical concepts is desired.

Must Have Skills:

• Defining agentic data and communication architecture/policy, owning security posture around agentic communication/data systems, secure CI/CD architecture and automation; design and evolve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with secure-by-default patterns, reusable templates, gated approvals, and promotion strategies across environments.
• Cloud and container platform mastery with security controls: Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP plus Kubernetes and container tooling, including policy enforcement, workload identity, secrets management, and secure networking.
• DevSecOps security tooling integration and orchestration: Implement and tune SAST, SCA, DAST, scanning, container scanning, secret scanning, and SBOM workflows, then integrate results into developer workflows (PR checks, build gates, dashboards) with low false positives.
• AI-assisted DevSecOps enablement: Build or integrate AI capabilities such as intelligent triage of findings, auto-prioritization based on exploitability and blast radius, suggested remediations, secure code review assistance, and developer copilots for pipeline authoring.
• Telemetry, observability, and security signal engineering: Define logging, metrics, traces, and security event pipelines across build and runtime, build dashboards and alerts, and connect findings to incident response and post-incident learning.
• Threat modeling and secure engineering leadership: Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews, translate risk into engineering requirements, and coach teams on secure coding patterns, least privilege, dependency hygiene, and release risk decisions.
• Engineering leadership and platform product mindset: Operate like a platform lead: roadmaps, internal customer empathy, documentation, service ownership, SLAs, adoption metrics, and driving standardization across teams without slowing delivery.

Skills

C#, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Python