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Job Description 

TITLE: Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Full Stack

DUTIES: DFS Corporate Services LLC seeks Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Full Stack in Riverwoods, IL to manage teams that develop and support infrastructure products. Partners with technology teams on standards exceptions and troubleshoot issues relating to hardware, operating systems and application integrations. Determine how results will be measured and evaluates project performance, outcomes, and efficiencies and distributes work, motivates, coaches, enforces policies and monitor project team members. Lead improvement projects for infrastructure products. Drive the adoption of platform capabilities to support business initiatives. Manage the development of applications and hardware solutions. Determine proper technical solutions, customizes tests and deploys them. Manage vendors, billing, software licenses, audits, and vendor management initiatives and work with line managers to obtain resources. Manage the budget for software and hardware. Provide leadership, and direction for project team members and works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define and/or document project objectives, scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, work structures, development budgets and timelines. Participate in tracking project deliverables and effectively communicate status, risks, problems, recommendations, and resolutions to senior management team and all stakeholder. Design and develop SOAP/REST based JAVA/J2EE, SPRING applications using Kafka, Python, Akka, Elastic Search, Docker, Mesos and Marathon and spring boot. Design and Develop applications using AWS services VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, KMS, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, and S3 on OpenShift, Kubernetes and Gluster framework. Support project iterations and participates in release management. Lead engineering teams and manages risks associated with product delivery. Promote a risk aware culture to ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or related: designing and developing JAVA/J2EE, SPRING design patterns including dependency injection, DAO, Abstract Factory and ORM framework Hibernate; participating in ETL integration and implementation using PENTAHO and SQL; and developing and implementing REST based applications. Two (2) years of experience must include utilizing AWS services VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, KMS, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, and S3; designing and developing micro services using Kafka, Python, Akka, Elastic Search, Docker and Mesos. One (1) year of experience must include leading engineering teams and managing risks associated to product delivery.

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