GDS Lead Engineer overseeing technical direction and system architecture for cloud-native solutions. Responsible for software engineering, project management, and AI/ML integration.
Responsibilities
Own technical direction and system architecture across assigned initiatives including interface design, technology selection, and long-term maintainability.
Author, review, and approve architecture and design documentation, clearly articulating tradeoffs across performance, cost, scalability, and operational risk.
Lead technical planning and requirements investigation, translating business objectives into scoped technical work, delivery plans, estimates, and sequencing.
Support agile delivery practices including sprint planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk tracking while communicating progress and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
Design, implement, and review backend services, APIs, and application components using modern, cloud-native development practices.
Establish and uphold standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, and operational reliability through hands-on contribution and review.
Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics workflows, and visualization layers to enable timely, data-driven decision-making.
Lead the integration of AI- and ML-enabled capabilities into production systems with a focus on reliability, interpretability, cost efficiency, and operational readiness.
Author System Security Plans and oversee design and implementation to meet organizational, federal, state, and customer security, privacy, and data governance requirements.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
At least 5-years of professional experience in software development
At least 3-years of professional experience in managerial roles
Full-stack software development using modern Python- and TypeScript-based stacks
Design and implementation of data architectures, backend APIs, services, and data pipelines
Technical ownership of architecture decisions, development lifecycles, and long-term system maintainability
AI and ML engineering with a focus on deployment to production systems
Batch and real-time data processing, analytics, and data governance
Cloud-native, containerized systems using declarative infrastructure-as-code
Strong fundamentals in networking, distributed systems, performance analysis, debugging, security, and data governance
Ability to evaluate, adopt, and integrate open-source, commercial, and unfamiliar technologies
Clear technical and business communication, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration
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