Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older. They are seeking an Engineer II to work with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications, develop technical solutions, and enhance technology processes.
Responsibilities
- Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance
- Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle
- Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes
- Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services
- Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer/employee experiences or other enterprise objectives/outcomes
- Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions
- Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering and/or software development
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python and/or PySpark, and SQL for data transformation, pipeline development, and data modeling
- 3+ years of experience developing and integrating APIs (RESTful services, JSON)
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using Git-based repositories (e.g., GitHub)
- Applied experience with cloud-native technologies, including AWS
- Working knowledge of object-oriented and/or ontology-based data environments, and experience building applications/workflows on platforms such as Salesforce, PowerApps, or Databricks
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with experience working in Agile environments, contributing to solution design, and supporting production systems, including participation in on-call and after-hours release support as needed
- Regular and reliable job attendance
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
- Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
- Home office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate home environment noise - (Telework)
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 100% company-funded pension plan
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Life insurance
- Paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave
- Performance-based and peer-based recognition
- Tuition reimbursement
Company Overview
AARP is leading a revolution in the way people view and live life after 50. It was founded in 1958, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.aarp.org.