Lead System Engineering

Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

This role is responsible for translating the core architecture for business requirements into the final technical solution (consisting of platform, network, software, cloud, etc.) through functional, performance, and reliability analysis using engineering models and techniques, primarily through software development throughout the vertical stack. Defines designs; Provides technical enablement for application components and subsystems for an Application(s). Drives important design decisions for development team.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Elaborate the design and interfaces for specific components, including defining subsystems and their interfaces, allocating responsibilities, understanding solution deployment, and communicating requirements for interactions within the solution context.

• Align development teams to a shared technical direction and partner closely with those teams to elaborate the solution and its interfaces. Validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and establish critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) at the solution level.

• Create and enable the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, participating in planning, definition, and high-level system design while exploring alternatives.

• Develop the Architectural Runway to support new business features and capabilities. Collaborate with portfolio stakeholders, solution and enterprise architects to develop, analyze, split, and realize enabler implementation.

• Participate actively in project planning, system and solution demos, and retrospective workshops.

• Understand technical characteristics of and assist with architectural integration of external components, systems, and platforms.

• Leverage expertise in Spring Boot (including REST APIs, MVC architecture, Security frameworks, and Spring Kafka messaging) to build scalable, secure, and event-driven backend services.

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications using Microsoft Azure cloud services, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.

• Utilize containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to streamline development, deployment, and management of microservices.

• Implement and optimize complex database operations using Oracle PL/SQL for data-intensive applications and seamless backend integration.

Education:

Preferred Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; Developer nanodegree; or equivalent experience.

Experience:

Typically requires 5-8 years experience.

Our Lead System Engineering, earns between $128,400-$192,600 USD Annual, not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:  

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

• 401(k) plan

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Caregiver Leave

• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected.

• Adoption Reimbursement

• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

• Life and Accidental Death Insurance

• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal

• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

• Extensive employee wellness programs

• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

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