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Equifax Director of Technology - Alpharetta GA in Alpharetta, Georgia
469865BR
Auto req ID:
469865BR
Company:
Equifax
Job Code:
Operations_ Specialist
Job Description:
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Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, diverse and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.
What you will do
Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners. Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters. Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers. Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs.
Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books. Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity
Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
Provides coaching, leadership and talent development; ensures teams functions as a high-performing team; able to identify performance gaps and opportunities for
upskilling and transition when necessary. Drives culture of accountability through actions and stakeholder engagement and expectation management
Develop the long-term technical vision and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams.
Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems
Position Title:
Director of Technology - Alpharetta GA
Job Category:
IT
Minimum Education Required:
Bachelors
City*:
Alpharetta
Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities:
What experience you need
BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required
5+ years’ experience in Team and People Management
You have experience developing accessible technologies
You are interested and able to learn other coding languages as needed
You can write very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain
You have experience in debugging, diagnosing, and trouble-shooting complex, production software
You adore working in a fast paced and agile development environment
You possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities, and proven design skills
You have detailed knowledge of modern software development lifecycles including CI / CD
You have the ability to operate across a broad and complex business unit with multiple stakeholders
You have an understanding of the key aspects of finance especially as related to Technology. Specifically including total cost of ownership and value
You are a self-starter, highly motivated, and have a real passion for actively learning and researching new methods of work and new technology
You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders
What could set you apart
The list below is extensive, which is indicative of the number of technologies we currently use across our projects and also highlights the volume of the unique opportunities we can offer you. While we wouldn't expect anyone to know of all of these, if your experience includes some of the below, we would love to talk to you:
Generative AI, AI Agent, AI Architecture knowledge
UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular4/5 and Bootstrap)
Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Subversion) and build tools like Maven
Big Data, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4J)
Design patterns
Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD)
Linux command line and shell scripting languages
Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service)
Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket)
Experience working in financial services
Assembly, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Expeditor,CA7, File-Aid in a mainframe
Experience in COBOL, DB2 in a mainframe environment
Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+) or ScalaJa
Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop or NoSQL such as Cassandra
Experience working with open source frameworks; preferably Spring, though we would also consider Ruby, Apache Struts, Symfony, Django, etc.
Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI
Strong knowledge of appropriate programming and scripting languages – Be proficient in .Net, .Net framework 4.5, WCF or related technology, AJAX, and JSON, and some type of automated testing
State*:
Georgia