Lead Cassandra Technologist
U.S. Bank
- San Francisco, CA
- $144,160-186,560 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
- Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
- Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
- Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
- Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
- Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
- Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
- Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
- Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
- Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
- Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Six to eight years of relevant experience
- Extensive knowledge on Cassandra (Datastax Cassandra) including performance tuning
- Knowledge of Unix operating systems and commands
- Experience working with Infrastructure as A code (IAAC) using Terraform
- Proficiency in Ansible or similar configuration management tools
- Scripting experience in Python, or similar programming languages
- Cloud automation experience with Azure or other cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Good Knowledge on CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab and Jenkins
- Automation first mindset
- Building security and compliance as a step in E2E automation
- Experience working in secure, compliant needs for mission critical systems in a cloud environment.
- Experience building and operating at scale
- Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
- Has technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers
- Thorough understanding of the team's domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this
- Ability to collaborate on all aspects of product development
- Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user
- Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
- Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
- Effective communication, presentation, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
- Proven collaboration and influencing skills