Lead Technical Software Engineer

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The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Lead Technical Software Engineer to join the Boeing Global Service (BGS) Training Solutions organization in Seattle WA.

This role leads to technical delivery architecture and operational excellence for a portfolio of cloud-native data and analytics products that support training and services. The responsible engineer will lead with a strong software and data engineering background. The candidate will prioritize and manage technical debt and long-term maintainability work alongside feature delivery to ensure platform health. Additionally the candidate will establish incident response practices SLAs/SLOs/SLIs runbooks and blameless postmortems (RCAs) to improve reliability and learning. The senior engineer will evaluate and manage third-party/vendor tools and open-source dependencies considering cost support and licensing risk.

They will drive cross-functional alignment with Product QA UX Security and Support to deliver customer value effectively. Engaging with business stakeholders and senior leadership the candidate will ensure that software architecture aligns with current and future business needs while assessing workforce skill gaps and creating targeted onboarding and upskilling plans. Furthermore the engineer will support release management pipeline design artifact promotion and rollback strategies for production platforms promoting operational excellence through incident response disaster recovery/backup planning cost management and capacity planning. Be part of a high-performing engineering organization transforming aviation training through data cloud and competency-based solutions.

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This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Position Responsibilities:

• Oversee the successful execution of all technical aspects of software and data platform projects across a portfolio ensuring delivery quality timeliness and alignment with product goals

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for status updates and decisions; collect progress updates track milestones and deliverables and proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues.

• Use technical expertise and leadership to remove roadblocks enable teams mentor engineers and ensure timely highquality software delivery

• Make wellinformed technical choices across the software lifecycle evaluating and selecting technologies frameworks and methodologies that balance scalability performance cost and supportability

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to assess feasibility and tradeoffs for functional and nonfunctional requirements

• Own the technical roadmap for the portfolio and ensure alignment with product roadmaps; partner with Software and Solution Architects to develop and maintain productlevel architecture and roadmaps

• Define publish and communicate product architecture best practices and standards to maintain consistency and quality across teams

• Foster collaboration and alignment with Solution Architects to meet enterprise requirements governance and security standards.

• Champion technical innovation by leading proofs of concept evaluating new approaches and articulating a longterm architectural vision

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes: development standards code quality test coverage security practices documentation and DevOps maturity

• Define and track engineering and product KPIs (e.g. cycle time MTTR test coverage) and report progress to stakeholders regularly

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• 9 years of experience with Data Engineering and/or Software Development

• 9 years of experience automating and troubleshooting application deployments using CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Tool Suites along with Azure Pipelines and Portal)

• 9 years of experience with the following tools and technologies: Hadoop Spark Kafka Nifi Relational SQL or NoSQL databases

• 5 years of Technical leadership experience guiding development teams to cloud

• Experience with these tools; PowerBI Azure DevOps SaaS Data Integration tools - Azure Databrick & Data Factory

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology) chemistry physics mathematics data science computer science computer engineering software engineering or equivalent

• Microsoft Azure Certifications (Fundamentals Architect DevOps etc.)

• Expertise in distributed computing architectures using service bus and/or related technologies (XML SOAP REST JSON etc.)

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (Azure provider) ARM templates or Bicep

• Experience with streaming and messaging (Event Hubs Service Bus) and orchestration via Data Factory

• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration fundamentals (Docker AKS ACR)

• Familiarity with observability and SRE practices using Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights; ability to define SLAs/SLOs/SLIs and runbook procedures

• Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Java including testing practices code reviews and authoring design documentation

• Experience evaluating and managing thirdparty tooling licensing and opensource risk

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with crossteam collaboration experience

• Experience with data governance and metadata tools such as Unity Catalog Purview or Alation

• Experience in cloud cost optimization capacity planning and platform scaling

• Prior experience in regulated or safetycritical industries (aerospace defense transportation) is a plus

• Relevant certifications (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect Databricks CKA) are advantageous

• Experience with Synapse advanced analytics workloads ML model operationalization or realtime analytics use cases

Leadership Skills:

• Proven experience leading technical teams and driving crossteam architectural direction across a portfolio

• Strong problemsolving skills and ability to make sound architectural decisions under pressure

• Excellent communication able to articulate complex technical concepts to executive and nontechnical stakeholders

• Ability to mentor and inspire team members fostering collaboration and continuous improvement

NonTechnical Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Business acumen to align technical decisions with business objectives

• Familiarity with Agile iterative and scaled frameworks (e.g. SAFe)

• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing requirements

Union:

This is a union-represented position.

Travel: less than 5%

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

CodeVue Coding Challenge:

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range for Lead Level: $156400 - $211600

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