Lead Application Platform Engineer

Opening / Selling Statement -The Innovation Lab aims to develop a design studio that advances early-stage concepts through competition research, prototyping, business design, and development.

In this role you will work as part of a dynamic team responsible for the delivery of new products and services from idea through Minimum Valuable Product.

This position is responsible for technical development for our innovation environment, providing architectural, development and operational support for multiple concepts at various levels of maturity.

This position is responsible for the early-stage technical design, architecture definition, and initial scoping for MVP of new greenfield business concepts.

Required Skills Be able to speak with the business, design requirements, architecture ideas on whiteboard, estimate cost (understanding projects from a business perspective), and talk conceptually about technical challenges-Be involved in design, development, test, and integration of multi-module ApplicationsCloud architecture-Past experience with Azure / AWS-Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS-Hands-on technical skills with architect level in constructing Service Oriented Architectures (SOAJob Duties Supporting concept owners through the prototyping and product design with a strong point ofview of engineering and technical capabilities?

Evaluate a variety of options tech stacks, vendor packages, partner relationships - in thecourse of early state product concepting and technical design?

Ability to understand financial implications of design choices and ability to estimate MVP andtotal build costs and ongoing operating costs as well as unit costs per customer Communication skills to defend design choices and tradeoffs to business leaders andstakeholders?

Collaborate with innovation development teams to develop and enhance services and tools toimprove efficiency Monitor and troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventativemeasures to enhance system reliability and performance Cooperate with enterprise architects to align cloud infrastructure development with the overallIT strategy and ensure compliance with architectural and security standards Develop and maintain documentation related to system design, architecture, configuration, andoperational procedures Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving reliability, scalability, and automation of oursystems and processes.

Job Requirements Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience Real world knowledge of modern SaaS application delivery at scale - including clouddeployment options, LLMs, AI / ML libraries and frameworks?

Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex systems and identifypoints of failure and bottlenecks Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and interact with stakeholders at all levels.

Desired Skills & Experience Certifications in Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc Financial services industry experienceSimilar to a designer providing a portfolio, it would be awesome if the engineering lead could provide some sample architecture diagrams that they have created in the past.

Conceptual architectures, detailed architectures, whatever they can show to demonstrate their thinking and the types of applications they have worked on.

Required Skills : AWS Cloud Formation,Professional Engineer,PaaSAdditional Skills : AWS Engineer,EngineerThis is a high PRIORITY requisition.

This is a PROACTIVE requisition