Solutions Engineer Lead Level

Company: USAA
Location: Colorado Springs
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Purpose of Job We are seeking a talented Solutions Engineer - Lead Level for our San Antonio, Plano, Charlotte, Colorado Spring, Tampa, or Phoenix facility. This person may also work remotely in a 100% remote work environment.

We are looking for talented solution engineer responsible for developing design and architecture to support cross domain business capabilities for P&C division. You will work closely with technologists from P&C domains and CTO group to create architecture for legacy mainframe and distributed applications and help migrate them to private and public cloud. You will focus on the intentional architecture and provide mentorship on emergent architecture to the technical teams. You will have hands-on experience in cloud architectures (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and deep interest and experience in broad enterprise platforms and cloud patterns.

Additionally, this person provides support to the Enterprise and has an opportunity to significantly impact organizational growth and effectiveness through delivering best in class technology solutions. Engaged in all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle which include; gathering and analyzing requirements, designing, testing, documenting and implementing software, responding to outages. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled.

Job Requirements
About USAA
USAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.
About USAA IT
Our most meaningful qualification isn't technical, it's human. Here, we don't just sit in front of a screen. We stand behind our 13 million members who rely on us every day.
We're proud of USAA's strong history -- and we're even more passionate about our future. That's why we have a team of supportive and collaborative hardworking technology professionals focused on doing more for our members. And why we're continuing to add innovative problem solvers to our team. With us, you'll find exciting challenges that inspire you to continue learning and growing.

Tasks:
Identifies and manages existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
Follows written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.
Design, develop, code, and test significant complex cross functional technical solutions that impact multiple areas of disciplines while communicating with internal team members across multiple areas and client functions.
Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning for multiple teams.
Organize work and lead multiple teams to deliver features and solutions.
Independently resolves complex production issues and leads troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions that span multiple applications and systems.
Mentor and coach junior / experienced engineers.
Work with architecture to help define directions for cross functional or highly complex key technologies within a specific domain.
May begin advancing professional development through active participation in industry organizations, writing programming publications, pursuing educational opportunities, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.

Minimum requirements:
Bachelor's degree in related field of study or 4 additional years of related experience beyond the minimum required
8 years of software development experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) to include 2 years demonstrated technical leadership experience and/or leading teams.
Highly proficient in software engineering languages and tools; ability to develop on multiple platforms.

When you apply for this position, you will be required to answer some initial questions. This will take approximately 5 minutes. Once you begin the questions you will not be able to finish them at a later time and you will not be able to change your responses.

Preferred experience:
Demonstrated experience in explaining complex technology decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels in the organization.
Demonstrated experience effectively communicating and developing high trust relationships with frontline and second level management and stakeholders.
Ability to develop target state architecture using services offered by AWS and private cloud and vision to develop the transition architecture.
Ability to design patterns for moving legacy applications to AWS and private cloud.
Hand on experience with common architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven, REST, NO SQL databases, Caches, etc.) and services offered by AWS (S3, EKS, RDS, elastic search, etc.)
Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience and recovery, etc.)
Experience with SAFe framework or other similar agile frameworks.
Experience with Java, Kafka, Spring, Redis, Kubernetes, OpenShift and others.
Guidewire experience is big plus.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Compensation:
USAA has an effective method for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market position. The salary range for this skill is: $117,600 - $211,700 *
Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance or at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Geographical Differential: Geographic pay differential is additional pay provided to eligible employees working in locations where market pay levels are above the national average.

Shift premium: Will be addressed on an individual-basis for applicable roles that are consistently scheduled for non-core hours.

Benefits:
At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.
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Relocation assistance is Not Available for this position.

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