Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in senior/staff roles and 2+ years
- with AI/ML experience
- Deep expertise in Python and TypeScript able to architect and build across the full stack
- Expert-level AWS ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation/Terraform, multi-account strategies
- Production experience incident management, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning
- CI/CD platform ownership at scale GitLab CI, pipeline-as-code, environment orchestration
- Security engineering background threat modeling, IAM design, vulnerability management, compliance (FRB, SOX/FFIEC)
- Experience with AI/ML systems LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, embedding models
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team capabilities
- Excellent communication can translate technical decisions for leadership and collaborate across teams
- Experience in financial services or similarly regulated environment preferred Must Have (Elevate-specific),
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently with minimal direction
- History of driving organizational-level technical improvements
- Comfort with ambiguity define the problem, not just solve it
- Player-coach mindset hands-on coding while mentoring and leading
- Ability to context-switch between strategic (architecture, roadmap) and tactical (debugging, shipping)
- Tech Stack, Python 3.12 | FastAPI | React 19 | TypeScript | AWS (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB,
- EventBridge, IAM, VPC) | Terraform | GitLab CI | Docker | Dynatrace (DQL) | Jira/Confluence/ServiceNow APIs | AI Gateway (GPT/Claude/open-source LLMs)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Application Architecture (30%) - Drive decisions & resolve challenges for internal
AI platform service design, data modeling, API contracts, scaling strategy, intelligence build - Establish
and enforce engineering standards code quality, testing practices, security controls, deployment patterns
Lead design reviews and technical decision-making for the team - Define and evolve the teams AI governance
framework trust levels, approval chains, model evaluation criteria - Represent engineering in cross-functional
forums architecture review boards, security assessments, compliance audits - Own technical roadmap
alignment between DevSecOps, RM, and Cognitive Engineering workstreams
Production Engineering & SRE (25%) - Own production reliability SLO definition, error budgets, availability t
argets - Lead complex incident response triage, cross-team coordination, executive communication Design
and implement self-healing automation detection, decision, approval, remediation pipelines - Architect
observability strategy Dynatrace/internal logging instrumentations, alerting, dashboards, DQL
queries - Manage on-call rotation; mentor team on debugging production issues - Drive toil reduction
identify repetitive operational work, automate or eliminate
DevSecOps & Security (20%) - Own CI/CD platform architecture pipeline optimization, caching, parallel
execut ion, security gates - Design and implement security controls IAM policies, network segmentation,
secrets management, vulnerability remediation - Lead infrastructure-as-code practices Terraform module
design, drift detection, compliance validation - Manage AWS infrastructure at scale ECS clusters,
Lambda@Edge, DynamoDB capacity planning, cost optimization - Drive container security image hardening,
ECR scanning, runtime protection
AI & Cognitive Engineering (25%) - Lead internal AI platform technical direction self-heal engine, knowledge
core, proactive monitoring, COG grid - Design AI pipeline architecture LLM routing, prompt management,
token budgets, model evaluation - Build the teams AI engineering capabilities Realted evolving tools
enablement, Guild Commons governance - Own the Ally AI Gateway integration model selection, fallback
strategies, cost optimization - Pioneer AGI-readiness patterns multi-model orchestration, approval chains,
confidence-gated autonomy - Drive adoption strategy enable other teams to contribute personas and
extend the platform
Salary: $68,000 - $110,000