Platform Solutions Engineer and AWS specialist

Platform Solutions Engineer and AWS specialist

Remote/Hybrid – TBC – International company with core hour requirements

Full-time

Who We Are: 

TelmarHelixa has best in class audience and media intelligence platforms with hundreds of clients globally. We’re on a mission to make sense of the world’s most valuable data and uncover the uniqueness of large and small cultures – who they are, what they like, and what they think.

We are transforming thousands of the world’s most useful datasets into strategic insights and planning capabilities each year for all of our clients. We deliver a cultural understanding that is accessible to all through accurate and ethical recommendations. Our diverse team of media experts and technology deliver innovative solutions that drive business success around the globe, with hubs and technical experts based around the world New York City, London, Montreal, Johannesburg, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

TelmarHelixa is poised to amplify the recommendations across the entire marketing lifecycle and improve outcomes for our clients. We are a global business operating in the Eastern Time Zone. 

Job Overview: In this role, you will be responsible for designing and delivering platform and data solutions that support all aspects of engineering implementation. You will play a key role in making critical decisions and mitigating technical risks, ensuring that development teams leverage the agreed-upon technical architecture and development methodologies. Working in a globally distributed environment across multiple platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will collaborate closely with teams (whilst predominantly working remotely) to enhance and advance our data engineering and application solutions.

As a motivated self-starter with a strong technical background especially in AWS, you will bring a passion for solving complex architectural challenges and a genuine enthusiasm for technical leadership.

Dominant technologies/methodologies here at TelmarHelixa: 

• Native AWS (Amazon Web Services) eg. Lambda, Cognito, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Search, Athena…
• Angular, Python, Node
• Api first
• DynamoDB, Redshift

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop platform solutions and architectural standards, ensuring team members understand and adhere to the guidelines, ensuring designs are scalable and easy to adopt.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to architect solutions that provide stability, security, and scalability, ie. SSO implementation, deployment processes.
• Continuously improve tooling, methodologies, processes, and technologies to stay at the forefront of best practices and innovation.
• Develop technical specifications focused on system integration, feasibility, performance, and sustainability.
• Document and communicate concepts clearly, providing technical guidance and coaching to engineering teams as needed.
• Regularly collaborate with senior stakeholders to define strategic direction and ensure developments align to the strategic roadmap.
• Identify technical problems proactively and translate them into non-technical descriptions for broader business understanding.
• Conduct structured analysis of technical issues and translate findings into actionable design solutions.
• Test deliverables to ensure they meet architectural, data, and engineering specifications.
• Help improve and troubleshoot processes from data engineering to application development to ensure our methods are cost effective, easy to adopt and ready to scale.
• Ability to work as a leader to define solutions and recommendations; and also be happy to be hands-on to get your methods implemented, validated and accepted.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• 5+ years as an Architectural Lead/Senior Developer
• 5+ years experience in the delivery of SaaS products in an agile environment  
• Detailed AWS knowledge and working experience with associated accreditation
• Languages and frameworks you may have used could include – Java, Python, Node, JavaScript, C++, Ruby, React JS, Java Spring, SpringBoot, Angular, ElasticSearch, Vue.JS, jQuery
• Thorough understanding of RESTful APIs and an API first approach
• Able to anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities
• Database design experience
• Experience with CI / CD tooling and processes
• Experience of working with Salesforce would also be beneficial.

Personal attributes: 

• Excellent problem-solving skills with an analytical mindset.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a remote working environment.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams. 
• Outstanding communication skills (written and verbal communication skills).
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively, independently, and as a team player.
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Has lateral thinking capability to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. 
• Able to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Chance to make a real impact on the company’s growth and success
• Work in a fun and collaborative environment