Lead Software Engineer/Developer

Location: Onsite

Client: State of Ohio

Rate : $72

Duration : 3+Months

1. The Lead Software Engineer/Developer will be: a Lead Level Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all technology stacks within the Payment Disbursement portfolio while providing technical leadership and hands on delivery for an AWS Development Team
2. Act in a tech lead role on project teams, working with business analysts on requirements, providing development estimates, writing technical design documents, and proposing technical solutions for small to mid-sized projects in adherence with latest trends in cloud based software and Huntington standards.
3. Build primary execution engine on AWS Lambda to support highly available and handles high volume payment origination, processing, disbursement, and settlement capabilities.
4. Build scalable and event based application using Amazon SQS and SNS. Build an efficiently executing application by continuously diagnosing logs and root causes of complex technical problems using AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.
5. Build storage for containers using EC2 and data stores using DynamoDB and RDS PostgreSQL. Build adhoc reporting using QuickSight.
6. Build security capabilities like threat monitoring and alerting using AWS GuardDuty, blocking common web API threats using Amazon WAF and automate security checks using AWS SecurityHub.
7. Build seamless user experience using JavaScript, nodeJS, efficient content delivery using AWS CloudFront and build storage for application UI using Amazon S3.
8. Build APIs to communicate with UI using API Gateway. Configure end points and keys using AppSync and SecretsManager. Maintain high performance APIs using X-Ray. Integrate API logs with Splunk using Kinesis Firehose.
9. Build a robust User Management using AWS Cognito and KMS.
10. Build networking using VPC and continuous configuration management using AWS Config.
11. Build communication capabilities like notifications and system monitoring emails using SES. Build large data transfer capabilities using AWS TransferFamily.
12. Expert level Change Management and Incident Management knowledge using ServiceNow to implement changes to production.
13. Expert level knowledge of integration between internal applications using APIs and other communication techniques.
14. Ensure that all development team deliverables are planned and completed including but not limited to sprint planning, backlog grooming, detailed design, development, unit/automated testing, defect fixes, implementation planning/execution, change controls, and production support/incident resolution.
15. Help in tracking and reporting the development team's progress in completing deliverables using systems like ADO and Jira.
16. Provide support in staffing decisions for the development team (referral, interviewing, candidate selection, onboarding, etc)
17. Provide L3 production support 24/7/365 spread across the team.
18. Display strong communication and collaboration skills frequently working with other enterprise IT and business partners on a daily basis.
19. Learn the business processes, controls and workflows supported by each technical solution and fluently communicate between technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Skills/Experience

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 3+ years using Unix/Linux commands.
• Minimum of Payments/payment processing background in one or more of the following (PayPal, Venmo, ACH, Check, Gift Card, Debit Card, Zelle, Bill Pay etc).
• Minimum of 3+ years hands on experience working with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration technology.
• Minimum of 10+ years of hands-on development using technologies that provide JavaScript driven user experiences, RESTful web services, incoming/outgoing file processing, and asynchronous event-based integrations.
• Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on Full Stack Cloud Native application development technologies like : Relational databases/SQL like Amazon Aurora, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases like Amazon DynamoDB ,Scripting languages/services like Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React JS, Node JS/Typescript, and AWS Lambda, Serverless Compute Engines - AWS Fargate , Amazon API Gateway, Code repositories like GIT and AWS CodeCommit, CICD pipelines like AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline, Content delivery formats like JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, CSS, CSV, and Amazon Cloudfront, Authentication and access controls like AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, AWS Single Sign On, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, Amazon Cognito, MFA, Cloud infrastructure solutions like Amazon S3, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation, Communication technologies like Amazon SQS, Amazon SES and Amazon SNS, DNS capabilities like DKIM, SPF, DMARC, AWS Route53, Batch/ETL processing capabilities like AWS Batch, SFTP, and AWS Transfer

• Experience using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, DataDog, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon QLDB, and log files to evaluate the health of mission critical production applications and to identify root causes for performance and functional issues.
• Excellent design, documentation, analytical, communication and SDLC skills