Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong architectural and development expertise to drive the design and implementation of enterprise integration, orchestration, and event-driven architecture solutions in AWS. This role extends beyond technical leadership, requiring the successful candidate to play a central role in requirement discovery and analysis, ensuring that business needs are accurately captured and translated into scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate skill in managing stakeholder expectations, balancing priorities, and resolving challenges commonly encountered during technical discovery. Working closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams, this role will deliver scalable, reliable, and future-ready integration platforms that support our mission to advance scientific knowledge.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirement discovery and analysis by engaging with business units and stakeholders to identify, clarify, and document integration and orchestration requirements.
• Design, implement, and govern enterprise integration and orchestration solutions ensuring seamless data and process flow between diverse systems.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of enterprise API management, ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability.
• Build integration and orchestration solutions using AWS services, and design monitoring solutions to track performance and provide insights.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, applying containerization strategies and security best practices.
• Drive collaboration with technical teams, ensuring alignment of work across multiple groups.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering best practices in integration, orchestration, and cloud engineering.

Key Technical Skills

• Enterprise integration patterns (e.g., publish/subscribe, event sourcing, saga)
• API design and governance (REST, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, SOAP, webhooks)
• AWS services (EKS, MWAA, EventBridge, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams)
• Java (primary language), Python (additional experience a plus)
• Containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Amazon EKS)
• CI/CD and DevOps practices (GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Monitoring and observability (AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray)

Soft Skills

• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem-solving
• Leadership
• Stakeholder management

Required Certifications/Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• AWS Certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Developer Associate, or Cloud Practitioner.