Anticipated End Date:2026-09-12
Position Title:Engineer Lead Sr, FDE
Job Description:JR204471 Engineer Lead Sr, FDEPlatform and Production Engineering, Forward Deployment Group (FDG)
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Engineer Lead Sr, FDE is responsible for leading end-to-end application system development and maintenance for large, complex, enterprise-wide technology platforms.
LOCATION: Hybrid 2: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.
Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.
How you will make an impact:- Lead the transition of FDG solutions from working prototype to secure, reliable, production-ready services.
- Define CI/CD, cloud environments, observability, DevSecOps, reliability, and release engineering patterns.
- Work with Infrastructure, Security, Cloud, AI Platform, and CGS teams to remove production blockers.
- Create reusable deployment, monitoring, and production-readiness standards that can be used across FDG missions.
- Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, leads requirements-gathering meetings, and reviews designs with the business.
- Leads efforts with Web and Marketing teams to increase the presence of web products.
- Anticipates broad technical changes and ensures company technology stays ahead of the curve.
- Prioritizes projects and makes trade-offs for enterprise system changes based on broader business needs.
- Understands the architecture for major areas of the business and can articulate scaling and reliability limits.
- Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
- Develops and owns the final list of enhancements.
- Defines application scope and objectives and oversees the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications.
- Performs technical design and code reviews.
- Ensures unit and system testing are completed according to requirements and implementation plans.
- Leads delivery of application technology solutions and data/information planning efforts.
- May participate in developing multi-year technology strategies for critical areas of the business across multiple systems.
- Partners with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify the long-term technical direction of the technology infrastructure.
- Creates architecture and anticipates future technology needs.
- Leads internal conversations on the direction of major technology areas and drives cross-team consensus and adoption.
- Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
- Reviews initiatives for end-to-end impact and coordination.
- Participates in enterprise solution reviews and decision-making.
Minimum Requirements:- Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study and a minimum of 9 years of experience, including experience with multidimensional platforms and business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience that would provide an equivalent background.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and containers/Kubernetes strongly preferred.
- Experience with SRE, observability, DevSecOps, performance, and distributed systems strongly preferred.
- Strong production engineering and troubleshooting experience strongly preferred.
- Experience operating enterprise services at scale strongly preferred.
- Experience mentoring others and driving teams to achieve results strongly preferred.
- Experience leading multiple and/or large-scale projects strongly preferred.
- Experience providing troubleshooting and production support strongly preferred.
- Experience working across multiple databases and/or programming languages strongly preferred.
Job Level:Non-Manager Exempt NAIM Access
Workshift:1st Shift (United States of America)
Job Family:IFT > Engineering/Dev
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