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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailJob Title: Lead Application Platform Engineer
Location: Jersey City NJ
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Required Skills
Be able to speak with the business design requirements architecture ideas on whiteboard estimate cost (understanding projects from a business perspective) and talk conceptually about technical challenges
Be involved in design development test and integration of multimodule Applications.
Cloud architecture
Past experience with Azure / AWSPlatform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Handson technical skills with architect level in constructing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
Job Duties
Supporting concept owners through the prototyping and product design with a strong point of
view of engineering and technical capabilities
Evaluate a variety of options tech stacks vendor packages partner relationships in the
course of early state product concepting and technical design
Ability to understand financial implications of design choices and ability to estimate MVP and
total build costs and ongoing operating costs as well as unit costs per customer.
Communication skills to defend design choices and tradeoffs to business leaders and
stakeholders
Collaborate with innovation development teams to develop and enhance services and tools to
improve efficiency.
Monitor and troubleshoot incidents perform root cause analysis and implement preventative
measures to enhance system reliability and performance.
Cooperate with enterprise architects to align cloud infrastructure development with the overall
IT strategy and ensure compliance with architectural and security standards.
Develop and maintain documentation related to system design architecture configuration and
operational procedures.
Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving reliability scalability and automation of our
systems and processes.
Job Requirements
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
Real world knowledge of modern SaaS application delivery at scale including cloud
deployment options LLMs AI/ML libraries and frameworks
Excellent problemsolving skills with the ability to analyze complex systems and identify
points of failure and bottlenecks.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and interact with stakeholders at all levels.
Desired Skills & Experience
Certifications in Agile Frameworks Scrum Kanban SAFe etc.
Financial services industry experience
Similar to a designer providing a portfolio it would be awesome if the engineering lead could provide some sample architecture diagrams that they have created in the past. Conceptual architectures detailed architectures whatever they can show to demonstrate their thinking and the types of applications they have worked on.
Full Time