SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Job Title: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Work Location: Houston, TX 77002
Contract duration: 12 Months
Interview Process (Is face to face required?) Yes

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Function
Contributes strategic technology vision and integrates a broad range of ideas regarding applications and software development. Presents, communicates, and articulates technical processes effectively to all levels within the organization (including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership, VPs and the C-level executives).
Undertakes complex applications development and maintenance projects involving multiple disciplines and multiple facets of the business. Implements software engineering best practices.
Develops enterprise-level information technology solutions by analyzing, coding, testing, and implementing new and by modifying existing software applications.
Leads design/coding sessions, develops and maintains solutions.
Articulates design and resolves technical/design conflicts as they occur.
Coordinates with business analysts and users to determine requirements. Performs analysis of system requirements and existing business processes.
Works with customers and technical staff to resolve problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
Reviews systems under development and related documentation. Participates in the development of software. Should have a Product mindset and Leads advanced systems planning, scheduling and implementation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Technically advanced knowledge or in-depth skills in one or more of the following is required:
Cloud Technologies: AWS Services such as Lambda, IAM, S3, EFS, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CLI, Kinesis, Glue, Elasticache (Redis), CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2
Experience working with Databases: Oracle, SQL, Server, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Dynamo DB
• Experience with Big Data Technologies like Spark, Glue
• Containers : Docker/Kubernetes/ECS
• Integrations : REST, API , Synch, Asynch , Realtime, Batch
• Network : VPC, Subnet, SG, IP ( CIDR )
• Security : WAF, Encryption , Access Control, Identity , SSO, MFA
• Performance/reliability: Auto-scale, ASG, ALB, NLB
• Storage/Datawarehouese : EFS, S3, Snowflake, SQL
• Proficiency in Python
• Good to Have- Shell (Unix) /Batch Script
• Angular, Node JS
• Knowledge of Service Oriented, Microservices and Event-driven design patterns
• Knowledge of Machine Learning foundations : Performance /Accuracy Metrics, Hyper-parameters, Training, Feedback, Inference
• Experience working on complex cloud-based software projects, web application development, security and open-source technologies
• Knowledge of enterprise coding standards
• Ability to perform code reviews
• Knowledge of software methodologies and agile development methodologies
• Observability CloudWatch/CloudTrail, Event Bridge, Data Dog or any industry standard tools
• Ensure reusability using framework, Domain Driven Approach, Modular Coding, Analytical, Data Driven Approach
• Ability to estimate effort.
• Be able to translate Business needs into technology goals
• Be able to troubleshoot issues using services/resources/platforms/logs
• Strategic thinker, innovative, responsible, confident, clear in thoughts, collaborative and has good communication skills
• Understanding of MLOps.
• Good understanding of Enterprise DevOps practice

Top 3 responsibilities:
you will collaborate with business and other teams to understand business requirements and work on the project deliverables
get involved in project transition from different teams, do enhancements, modifications, and support post transition as needed
Provide technical leadership during development, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and alignment with architectural guidelines.

Minimum years of experience: 10+ years