Software Engineer I

Job Summary:The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery and sphere of influence is for a single squad.Responsibilities:Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area.Helps refine the team's backlog. Partners with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Helps inform delivery estimates (story points). Seeks to understand prioritization and sequencing decisions. Seeks to understand key dependencies.Participates in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through participation in practices such as pair programming.Follows quality standards. Leverages automation where possible. Ensures application performance, uptime, and scale. Participates in peer code reviews. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs, security risks, and bottlenecks. Leverages support playbooks.Monitors and observes health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Assists with diagnosing performance issues found in monitoring. Assists with implementing new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders.Learns about DevOps practices employed by the squad to advance the technical foundation of solutions.Seeks to understand the squad's current technologies and ways of software delivery.Performs other duties as assigned.Additional Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience. Typically requires less than 2 years of professional experience where knowledge base is generally acquired from a college degree or equivalent course experience. Exposure to data services in a cloud computing platform Experience coding in one of the following languages (Python, Scala, SQL, PowerShell) Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new software development tools Ability to participate and contribute in a team environment, and to work with users of all levels to identify requirements and deliver timely results Ability to grasp new technologies rapidly, break down data issues and resolve them Solid technical, communication and interpersonal skills Sound judgment and decision-making, and the appropriate sense of urgency. Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language, strongly preferred Azure experience preferred (Logic and Function apps) Knowledge of database systems (SQL) Strong project and time management skills Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams Excellent communication skills, both written and oral Exposure to wholesale and/or retail solutions preferred; Experience with Data Catalogs, business glossaries, data governance, and metadata management preferred Travel: None Work Schedule: Standard HoursCareer Band: ProfessionalJobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.Criteria & Management Requirements: Problem Solving: Works on projects and tasks with limited complexity and solves problems with limited independence. Decisions: Makes decisions within guidelines and policies that impact own work. Receives moderate level of guidance and direction. Knowledge: Obtains fundamental knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures within own discipline or specialty area. Business Acumen: Applies general knowledge of basic business principles developed through education or experience. Communication & Influence: Exchanges straightforward information, asks questions and checks for understanding. Impact: Work performed will have impact to projects within the department. Leadership: No supervisory responsibilities. This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.