Solutions Architect/Engineering Manager - Efficus Inc.

Responsibilities

This role would be the principal designer and developer of CEB's content pipeline and digital publishing workflow. They will lead the development of scalable solutions to source, process, and deliver a wide variety of legal content types. This content will include both internally-authored original content as well as documents and databases published by third-parties, ranging from publishing partners, to local courts and state and federal agencies. This role will build robust Extract Transform Load (ETL) pipelines that convert various content formats into consistent schemas, preparing them for delivery to customers via CEB's web-based legal research platform. This position calls for expertise in software engineering, resilient data pipeline architecture, and cloud technologies, with a focus on content management.Operational responsibilities include gathering product technical requirements, documentation, providing recommendations for streamlining and optimizing engineering processes, and ensuring technical requirements and controls are adhered to. With oversight over all internal and external technical teams to ensure technical teams are meeting their deliverables on time, within scope, and within budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on content management systems, ETL design and implementation, or digital publishing pipelines.
  
• Demonstrated proficiency in either Python or Node.js.
  
• Strong understanding of XML and XSLT with experience in converting between various document formats.
  
• Comfort with SQL schema design and optimization, preferably PostgreSQL, including the ability to create efficient schemas, write complex queries, and tune database characteristics for performant content delivery.
  
• Familiarity with core AWS infrastructure offerings relevant to building ETL pipelines, including Lambdas, Step Functions, AWS Glue, S3, etc.
  
• Experience with IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi, Serverless Framework or AWS CloudFormation, and the ability to independently deploy distributed applications using one of these tools on AWS.
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex issues in distributed systems.
  
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to interface effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead software development, technical and/or product management teams.
  
• Expertise in front-end and back-end technologies
  
• Experience architecting, building, testing, and deploying scalable and reliable software applications.
  
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and security principles
  
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical innovation and lead projects from concept to delivery.
  
• Demonstrated ability to transform high level product requirements into actionable technical requirements (e.g., user stories, acceptance criteria, etc.)