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 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 Applications.
-Cloud 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 (SOA).

Job Duties - Supporting concept owners through the prototyping and product design with a strong point of
view of engineering and technical capabilities
Evaluate a variety of options tech stacks vendor packages partner relationships - in the
course of early state product concepting and technical design
Ability to understand financial implications of design choices and ability to estimate MVP and
total build costs and ongoing operating costs as well as unit costs per customer.
Communication skills to defend design choices and tradeoffs to business leaders and
stakeholders
Collaborate with innovation development teams to develop and enhance services and tools to
improve efficiency.
Monitor and troubleshoot incidents perform root cause analysis and implement preventative
measures to enhance system reliability and performance.
Cooperate with enterprise architects to align cloud infrastructure development with the overall
IT strategy and ensure compliance with architectural and security standards.
Develop and maintain documentation related to system design architecture configuration and
operational procedures.
Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving reliability scalability and automation of our
systems 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 cloud
deployment options LLMs AI/ML libraries and frameworks
Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex systems and identify
points 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 experience
Similar 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 FormationProfessional EngineerPaaS

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills : AWS EngineerEngineer

This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No