Specialist Software Engineering - Amazon Connect
Transamerica1 month ago
Philadelphia, PA, USA or Denver, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$131k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud-native architectures on AWS using Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Develop serverless and containerized applications using Lambda, ECS/EKS, and API Gateway.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
- Design and optimize data-storage solutions using DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, S3, and ElastiCache.
- Establish security practices including IAM policies, encryption, and network security.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions with product and engineering teams.
- Lead complex architectural analysis and detailed technical design for end-to-end solutions.
- Collaborate with development staff, contract and offshore engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
- Serve as a subject matter expert, recommend cost-conscious solutions, prepare presentations, and lead development meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering, or another technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of software development experience, including 5 or more years focused on AWS.
- Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, and Route 53.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, networking, CI/CD, security, observability, Docker, container orchestration, microservices, and REST APIs.
- Strong technical communication, presentation, problem-solving, customer-focus, organization, and deadline-management skills.
- Master’s degree, Amazon Connect experience, AWS or Microsoft certifications, and financial-services knowledge are preferred.
- Preferred experience includes AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, Bedrock, SageMaker, data warehousing, ETL, big data, streaming analytics, and machine-learning implementations.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid office arrangement requiring in-office work Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Philadelphia, PA; Cedar Rapids, IA; or Denver, CO.
- Minimum travel of up to 10% and occasional work outside normal business hours may be required.
- Relocation assistance is not provided.
- Eligible employees may receive competitive pay, an annual bonus, pension, 401(k) match, employee stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, and medical, dental, vision, disability, and employee-discount benefits.
- Benefits include paid time off starting at 160 hours in the first year, ten paid holidays, wellness programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, employee assistance, backup care, volunteer PTO, employee resource groups, and professional development opportunities.