Lead Software Engineer

Role Type: Full Time Employment (no C2C/C2H)

Location: Baltimore, MD preferred (Other accepted locations: Wilmington, DE / Charlotte, NC / Dallas, TX / or Evansville, IN)

Job Description: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to support products and programs aimed at expanding capabilities through data-driven strategies for credit decision services and data pipelines for analytics. This role involves supporting the architecture of a data-driven organization and overseeing the building and operation of capabilities necessary for full lifecycle data management, governance, provisioning, modeling, science, and analytics.

The Lead Software Engineer will engage with a team of data subject matter experts, covering the range of data-centric domains, including building, governing, and operating data platforms, as well as providing embedded data professionals and product delivery teams. With our client having both on-premise and cloud-based operations, the Lead Software Engineer will balance strategies leveraging both, while driving towards a cloud-first approach and performing legacy data transformations where necessary. This role also involves mentoring other developers, guiding and directing data activities within sprints, and ensuring standards and processes are followed across all projects.

All Sogeti Prospective Candidates Must:

• Possess a Bachelors and/or Masters Degree from an accredited institution.
• Must have valid work authorization that does not currently and/or will not require future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Sogeti-Capgemini.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Set and maintain design guidelines/principles along with enforcing controls, preferably through automation.
• Design, develop, and execute models and platforms using AWS services and open-source components.
• Deploy and migrate developed workflows across different environments.
• Optimize existing decisioning processes.
• Integrate decisioning platforms with other systems and components.
• Facilitate engaging collaboration with cross-functional technology SMEs to design scalable, reliable, resilient, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Establish and execute appropriate testing within the client platform to enable earlier and more frequent testing.
• Lead the development of technically complex and highly integrated functionality, including coaching and guiding developers during development cycles to ensure requirements are met within defined timelines.
• Partner with product management to ensure design, engineering, and implementation meet business needs.
• Utilize and drive continued adoption of engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, and cloud-native architectures.
• Use metrics to describe continuous improvements in quality, efficiency, and speed.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Direct hands-on experience with one or more programming languages, such as Python, TypeScript, Scala, SQL.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud computing experience in AWS. Deep functional expertise with EKS, Aurora, MSK, DBT, Airflow, and Flink is a strong plus.
• In-depth RDBMS development experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora).
• Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with automated delivery pipelines, agile delivery, and test-driven development.
• Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g., OO, functional) and in-depth knowledge of software design patterns is a strong plus.
• 3+ years of experience with agile methodologies and collaborative software engineering techniques (e.g., Agile development, design and code reviews, test-driven development).
• Experience with API and integration frameworks and patterns is a strong plus (e.g., GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka).
• Passion for producing clean, error-free code and proactively identifying potential issues.
• Active learner with initiative for continuous improvement.
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring junior developers.
• Self-motivated with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.

Life at Sogeti - We support all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) (matched 150% up to 6%) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• 100% Company-paid mobile phone plan
• 3 weeks Personal Time Off (PTO) and 7 Paid Holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Continuing Education: $12,000 Annual Tuition Reimbursement plus access to over 20,000 online courses and certifications through Capgemini University, as well as Coursera and Degreed.
• Programs for Counseling, Support, Health and Fitness perks, Auto discounts and much, much more.
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

Disclaimer - Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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