Job Description

Overview: The Staff Software Engineer L5 works with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, has the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to build and operate innovative services/platforms for Inovalon applications.
2. Serve as a technical authority for complex projects and cross-team initiatives.
3. Own end-to-end architecture for large systems or multiple services; sets technical direction.
3. Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
4. Lead design reviews and provide strategic input on system scalability and performance.
5. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional and partner teams to define project requirements.
6. Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimization, cost, and security.
7. Write high quality distributed system software.
8. Mentor junior engineers and provide code reviews to ensure quality.
9. Shapes technical direction for the organization, drives innovation, and ensures scalability.
10. Apply Agile development principles to continuously deliver value and readily adapt to evolving requirements.
11. Maintain code integrity and organization, ensuring the highest level of performance for both front-end and back-end code.
12. Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
Job Requirements:
1. Minimum 8-12 years in software development with demonstrated leadership in complex projects, leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new or existing services/systems.
2. 8-12 years in data engineering or related roles.
3. Advanced proficiency in Snowflake (data modeling, performance tuning, security), strong SQL skills for complex queries and optimization, and experience with ETL/ELT tools and data pipeline orchestration.
4. Optimize queries and data structures for high performance and scalability and implement best practices for data partitioning, clustering, and caching.
5. Integrate Snowflake with various data sources and BI tools
6. Define data strategy, ensure data integrity and performance across multiple systems.
7. Knowledge of Azure Data Services, Python, or Spark.
8. Familiarity with data warehousing best practices.
9. Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines.
10. Proficient in Java and Angular, AWS services and performance tuning techniques - design performance strategy for large-scale systems; mentors others on performance best practices.
11. Proven track record of leading technical teams and influencing architectural decisions. Lead multiple teams or initiatives, drive technical vision, and influences org-level decisions.
12. Partners with senior leadership, product strategy, and cross-functional teams to align technical roadmap.
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

Skills Required