Cooperative Benefits Group is seeking a creative, action-oriented data engineering leader with extensive experience in AWS and PostgreSQL to help drive application, data, and architecture development in the cloud. Building scalable and intelligent tools is fundamental to our team’s success and critical to supporting a rapidly growing company. We’re looking for a self-motivated and organized Manager, Data & Integration Engineer with over 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS, deep expertise in PostgreSQL, and a strong understanding of the various ETL methods currently in use. Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus. The ideal candidate has used GitHub or equivalent code repository systems, understands servant leadership, can assist both junior and senior engineers, and is adept at understanding business needs to build better solutions.

Job Description Summary

This position serves as an expert technical and industry leader to management, clients, and development staff in leveraging data and information technology across all phases of major system and subsystem development. You will lead, mentor, and contribute to task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof-of-concept IT activities. You’ll direct and participate in all aspects of development tasks, including data management, system, and business architecture, providing guidance to other tech leads and staff on complex assignments and mentoring them on new technologies.

What You'll Be Doing

Leadership Responsibilities:

Lead technology teams to continuously deploy and showcase working solutions that delight our users and team members.
Nurture teams in pursuing cloud architecture excellence, providing training and promoting best practices.
Mentor team members to master lean development processes, techniques, and technologies.
Proactively identify improvements to existing solutions and propose actionable plans.
Assist both junior and senior engineers, fostering an environment of continuous learning and collaboration.
Embrace servant leadership principles to support and empower your team.
Understand business needs to build better solutions that align with organizational goals.
Provide clarity, vision, and messaging in support of department themes, even in ambiguous situations.
Author and drive team roadmaps in support of overall department initiatives.
Tackle complex problems across all development areas.
Ensure team performance is measurable and aligns with department roadmaps.
Cultivate skill development, career growth, and leadership opportunities within technology teams.
Hold teams accountable to cloud spend disciplines and practices, supporting overall department budgets.

Technical Duties:

Develop digital architectures and solutions that are simple, scalable, maintainable, efficient, and adhere to data governance and best practices.
Code, test, debug, and collectively own applications with our teams.
Enhance existing applications and platforms to ensure production systems meet user needs.
Collaborate with engineers and operations staff to develop and review technical specifications and documentation.

You Should Apply If You Have

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Programming, or another technical field. Equivalent related field experience will be considered.
6+ years of work experience in a professional software development position.
Demonstrated experience using data-focused languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and/or Golang languages/frameworks.
Demonstrated experience with advanced data structures and ETL/ELT technologies.
Proven experience with low/no-code data and API integration platforms.
Demonstrated experience with serverless and containerized technologies.
Demonstrated awareness of microservice, serverless, and API software patterns.
Solid experience in writing and tuning PostgreSQL, SQL, PL/pgSQL functions, procedures, and triggers.
Experience with developing highly scalable, cloud-native applications in AWS not limited to AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, CloudFormation, and CodePipeline.
Comfortable with, and be able to thrive in, a fun, hardworking, ever-changing, and self-driven environment.
Strong problem solving and analysis skills, self-motivation, and team collaboration.
Able to guide team in technical direction.
Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

AGILE, DEVOPS AND CLOUD REQUIREMENTS:

Experience with leading teams in creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using industry standard toolchains.
Ability to act as expert for automated testing strategies, including TDD and ATDD.
Experience with identifying and tracking key metrics produced by the applications.
Working knowledge of creating microservices and RESTful API’s, including understanding of custom headers, and best practices.
Understands advanced concepts of containers (Docker, Kubernetes), microservices, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. Integrate all steps of DevSecOps into all development arenas, with intent of short-circuiting feedback loops to operational teams.
Experience with Git and GitFlow philosophies.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

Ability to work across full-stack spectrums with modern client-side and server-side frameworks.
Modern web stack experience, including both client and server-side technologies (full stack.)
Thorough understanding of the HTTP/HTTPS and other web protocols.
Leader in the developer community within CBG and performs demo, knowledge sharing sessions.

Other Considerations

US Citizens and Green Card holders only.
Preference will be given to candidates located in Utah, Virginia, Florida, and Nebraska

Our Culture

First and foremost, we’re a team. We work hard and have each other’s backs; there’s no such thing as “not my job.” “We’ve always done it this way” doesn’t exist here and our team members are asked to perceive beyond the obvious, as well as innovate every day. We strive to provide clarity where there is none. We also insist on having fun and supporting healthy lifestyles. We believe that employee growth and engagement is the framework of a flourishing company.

We are a proud promoter of equal opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion, and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees. We support Equal Employment Opportunities without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status when hiring – under federal, state and local laws. We are a drug-free workplace. All candidates are required to pass a Drug and Background Screen prior to employment.

Benefits

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Health savings account
Paid time off
Vision insurance

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during “core” work hours to meet the needs of our business.
Extended hours, weekends and holidays may be required pursuant with industry and client demands.

Work Location: Remote. Opportunity to come to office if based near Salt Lake City, Utah.

Job Type: Full-time

Physical Requirements

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

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