Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - ALSAC is a respected nonprofit dedicated to curing childhood cancer. They are seeking a Software Engineer IV to provide technical leadership for their data platforms, ensuring production stability and architectural integrity while collaborating with various teams to enhance their enterprise analytics ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority for platform‑level systems, owning architecture, data flows, and technical standards across products
- Design, build, and maintain robust technical processes spanning multiple technologies, programming languages, and database structures
- Partner closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment between architecture standards, technical solutions, and business outcomes
- Lead technical design reviews and make informed trade‑off decisions balancing speed, performance, reliability, data integrity, and maintainability
- Own technical oversight for a portfolio of products and services, helping prioritize work across competing demands including delivery commitments, production support, technical debt, and platform modernization
- Influence where engineering effort is invested to maximize organizational value
- Be accountable for production readiness, system reliability, and incident prevention across portfolio systems
- Establish and enforce standards for monitoring, alerting, resiliency patterns, runbooks, and post‑incident reviews
- Drive continuous improvement in platform stability, observability, and operational maturity
- Plan, architect, and lead large‑scale technical initiatives, upgrades, and implementations
- Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and engineering managers to align technical execution with business priorities
- Introduce and evaluate modern tools and emerging technologies that improve platform capability and sustainability
- Act as a technical lead and mentor to Software Engineers I–III through coaching, design guidance, code reviews, and pair programming
- Support team growth by promoting best practices across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems development, and large-scale technical design
- Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms in both on-prem and cloud environments
- Deep expertise in SQL Server / database engineering, including performance tuning, reliability, and troubleshooting long-running or blocking workloads
- Strong understanding of enterprise data ingestion patterns using SQL, APIs, and cloud-based platforms (AWS), with awareness of downstream analytics and warehouse impacts
- Experience with modern data ingestion and transformation tools (e.g., CData, dbt, or equivalent), with a focus on production ownership and maintainability
- Working knowledge of SQL Server replication technologies, including Microsoft Replication and Change Data Capture (CDC)
- Strong skills in process modeling, data modeling, database design, and technical specification creation
- Excellent communication, organization, and planning skills; able to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Hands-on experience with containerization supporting data engineering or AI/ML workloads
- Exposure to cloud-native architectures supporting scalable, reliable data pipelines
- Experience with project planning, technical road-mapping, and deployment strategies
Benefits
- Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
- 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
- Exceptional Paid Time Off
- Maternity / Paternity Leave
- Infertility Treatment Program
- Adoption Assistance
- Education Assistance
- Enterprise Learning and Development
Company Overview
ALSAC is the largest healthcare-related charity in the United States. It was founded in 1957, and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.stjude.org.Company H1B Sponsorship
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - ALSAC has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 37 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 21 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 14 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.