As the Lead Integration Engineer, Platform Delivery, you will be accountable for organizing a set of Technology Infrastructure (TI) services – application platform integration, release and environment orchestration, DevSecOps, and environment delivery – to support Product portfolio teams.  You will lead activities around planning, requirement analysis, solution alternatives engineering and implementation coordination for application platforms residing in the cloud or on-premises. You'll have the opportunity to work remotely and come into the office on occasion for team collaboration moments. Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad for a month in another region/country. The choice is yours!

Who you'll work with

You will lead a cross-functional service delivery group – application vendors, Product portfolio squads and Technology Infrastructure teams – to engineer solutions that meet the needs of Teachers’ business areas.  You will work under the guidance of our Senior Manager, Platform Delivery.

What you'll do

• Analyze existing application platforms to ensure optimal operations and analyze new application system requirements to identify where the integration of latest technology and application patterns can be applied 

• Based on the knowledge Product portfolio needs and their application platform uniqueness, perform market research, conduct Proof of Concepts, and then recommend solution alternatives or improvements after the detailed assessment

• Technically plan and direct all TI activities with collaboration from TI DevSecOps & Environment Automation, TI Engineering, TI Infrastructure Operations, and vendor teams to deliver the Technology Infrastructure solution

• Lead the design walkthrough and operational readiness review of new systems / application platform to ensure compliance with security, availability, performance, BCP/DR, and other Teachers’ standards / strategies.

• Promote DevSecOps, support CI/CD pipelines, optimize release delivery agility, design fit-for-purpose environment strategy and deliver automated services 

What you'll need

• Framework level knowledge of delivery and operational approaches: Waterfall/Iterative SDLC, Agile/Traditional Project Management, Portfolio-Product Lifecycle, IT Service Management

• Roles and processes with agile product delivery and DevSecOps approach

• Roles and processes with ITSM - Service Desk, Incident, Problem, Change, CAB, L1/L2/L3 Supports

• Design level knowledge of system architecture, cloud (PaaS/SaaS) principles, integration of application systems, and common investment business function platforms including trading, accounting and financial operations.

• In-depth knowledge of application, data and infrastructure integration between application platforms in a multi-cloud / SaaS approach connecting to critical technology components residing on-premises 

• 5 years of application development experience with agile product delivery and DevSecOps approach to design, build, enhance, and support a business application platform

• 5 years of operational experience with providing L1/L2/L3 application supports, governing production changes through CAB and situation-managing incidents/problems

• 5 years of lead experience in managing mission-critical development initiatives and/or application upgrade/migration projects

• 3 years of Release, Deployment and Environment Management experience with scheduling, organizing, and orchestrating of releases/non-production environments across multiple Product portfolios

• Preferably, some application level experience with Charles Rivers (CRIMS), SimCorp Dimension (SCD), and FIS Quantum (QTM)

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