Title: Technical Lead Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid) Duration: FTE
Position Summary:
We are looking for an Expert Technical Lead to be a part of our exciting and growing team. Your primary focus will be to provide technical leadership and mentorship across our Flink and Kafka real-time data platform and product engineering teams. You will lead technical design and implementation of real-time event driven use cases and drive technical feasibility discussions for our products as you collaborate with other technical leaders, product owners and development leads. You will be required to discover the boundaries of our platforms, provide solutions for technical problems and drive discussions within IT and Lines of Business. As a productive member of a motivated group of engineers, product teams, and technical analysts, you will be producing ground-breaking, forward thinking, and revolutionary projects that will modernize critical infrastructure.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the Client’s Service Territory.
Client’s is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting.
This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, educatión, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. This job is also eligible to participate in Client's discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Job responsibilities:
Lead technical design and implementation of Flink and Kafka event driven use cases
Lead and mentor the development team in a hands-on way
Provide technical feasibility assessment while collaborating with Product Owner and Design team to guide features and provide technical know-how
Define and address application non-functional requirements, and manage technical debt
Debug and optimize complex applications
Effectively communicate the vision and architecture to team members]
Maintain a productive working environment for development teams
Be a strong advocate for a culture of quality across the team
Collaborate with external teams, especially security, to design, implement and support solutions that are scalable and efficient
Build best-in-class real time analytics products with Flink and Kafka
Effectively communicate the solution to non-technical stakeholders
Folate develop ent mandola capabilities of Palantur Foundry releases, reatures and best practices and recommend changes to improve efficiency, performance and scalability
Advocate for appropriate data modeling techniques to enable agile development and the business use cases, specifically in the integration of event-driven with batch data processing
Qualifications: Minimum-
High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
5 years relevant work experience to include experience as a Technical Lead and intermediate to expert level development in Python and Java
Desired-
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience
10 years of experience in IT working in application development and architecture, with 7 years project implementation experience and hands-on experience developing data products
Expert in the solution architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices
Firsthand experience building solutions in Flink and/or Kafka including development of Java and/or Python Flink UDFs.
Exposure to a process improvement discipline (e.g., Six Sigma) used within a technology supported business process implementation
Process design, information modeling and / or system solution architecture development with project or portfolio focus in at least one of the following: Cloud Architecture, Data Management, Security, Microservices, or Infrastructure technologies
Operational support for applications, systems, or infrastructure
Experience providing direction to design and engineering staff
Experience providing direction to one or more architects and technical leads
5 years of experience developing solution architectures for complex data platforms and products
5 years of hands on experience working with multiple technologies and platforms such as integrations with ERP systems (e.g. SAP), Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS) etc.
Demonstrated solid understanding of architecture best practices and enterprise-scale solution development
Possess diversified technical background with Enterprise System Solution mindset
Able to provide individual or project oversight on rapid prototyping/POC efforts and large-scale enterprise wide roll out planning
Experience working with technology and business partners to develop secure and scalable solutions
Experience working as an Agile/Technical Lead in an Agile environment
Experience with developing solutions for data-driven applications
Experience with GIS is a plus
Knowledge of SAP and/or ESRI a plus
Knowledge of Data Vault 2.0 modeling techniques a plus
Excellent communication and collaboration skills and a strong work ethic
Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Able to build strong relationships with and influence at the Director level of leadership
Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace
Able to further community & elevate team performance
Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the role and has strong sense of ownership
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $50.00/hr.
