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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Software Engineer Overview Join a team focused on transforming how Mastercard's payment systems are built, scaled, and operated. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of cloud-ready applications, microservices, and distributed systems that support large-scale payment processing platforms while helping advance modernization, automation, and engineering excellence across the organization. In this role, you will contribute to software architecture decisions, drive technical design discussions, and partner with engineers to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable software solutions. You'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, mentor other engineers, and influence how software is designed, developed, tested, and supported across critical technology platforms. What You Will Do •Design software solutions and contribute to software architecture decisions that support scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence. •Translate complex product requirements into technical designs and implementation plans. •Lead development of modular, extensible, high-performance applications. •Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional, and integration testing strategies. •Analyze, optimize, and improve application performance, scal

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📍 Bellevue, WA, United States· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Corporate Systems Engineering builds and operates the software platforms, integrations, and automations that power Smartsheet’s core business functions across Finance, Sales/GTM, and People & Culture. Our team owns mission-critical systems and workflows that enable how the company hires, sells, bills, pays, reports, and scales. We operate at the intersection of software engineering, enterprise platforms, and business-critical data, treating internal systems with the same rigor, reliability, and product mindset as customer-facing software. The Automation team builds human-to-system and system-to-system automations that reduce manual effort and friction across the business. We combine cloud-native services, agentic AI, and workflow orchestration to enable employees to interact with enterprise systems through intelligent, secure, and auditable automation. As a Senior Software Engineer I (Automation), you will lead the design, build, and operation of systems and workflows that directly support business execution at scale. You will own complex technical initiatives, partner with Product Managers and stakeholders on technical roadmaps, and mentor junior engineers. This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director, Development and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Architect AI Agents: Take a leading role in designing Agentic Workflows using AWS Step Functions and Bedrock Agents that reason

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Software Engineer Job Overview: Responsible for the analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions. Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices. Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to Mastercard specifications. Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members. Major Accountabilities • Plan, design, architect, and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices • Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with a high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, quality, reliability, and faster time to market. • Accountable for the full systems development life cycle including creating high-quality requirements documents, use cases, designs, and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategies, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility studies, cost and time analysis, and detailed estimates. • Design, develop, test, dep

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📍 Denver, Colorado, United States
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$118.7K – $160K/yr

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Healthcare is complex. We’re here to change that. RVO Health is a health technology company on a mission to make health easier to navigate, more accessible, and more affordable for everyone. Here, you'll help over 40 million people every month, with a team that genuinely cares about the work and each other. AT A GLANCE The Senior Software Engineer is a crucial role within our organization, requiring work in various capacities and adaptation to different work arrangements based on the needs set by the business. The successful candidate will be responsible for fulfilling their job duties in the following work situations: Where You'll Be Location: Denver, CO | Hybrid We believe great collaboration happens when we're together, solving problems, learning from each other, and connecting as a team. That's why we’re in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week. You are welcome to work remotely Mondays and Fridays if you wish. Address: 1801 California St. Denver, CO 80202 What You’ll Do Lead the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of sophisticated software applications and systems aligned with business goals. Collaborate closely with stakeholders including product managers, designers, and other engineers to gather requirements and translate them into robust technical designs and solutions. Write high-quality, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code adhering to best practices and company standards. Debug, analyze, and resolve complex software defects and performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal system reliability and user experience. Conduct comprehensive testing and validation including unit, integration, and performance testing to guarantee software quality. Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing. Perform thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality, enforce coding standards, and promote best p

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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Software Engineer Overview Join a team responsible for building the authentication and security solutions that help protect digital interactions across Mastercard's Identity Solutions platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing applications that enable trusted identity verification, authentication, and fraud prevention capabilities. In this role, you will take ownership of complex technical challenges, contribute to software design and architecture decisions, and partner closely with product, security, and platform teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions. You'll play a key role in advancing engineering excellence through secure development practices, system reliability, automation, and continuous improvement while mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction across the team. Role •Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, cloud-native applications and microservices •Develop REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability •Translate requirements into well-structured designs and architecture, ensuring maintainability and security •Lead and contribute to system design discussions, aligning with architectural standards and best practices<

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$174.5K – $236.1K/yr

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Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: The Senior Software Engineer II helps lead the platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we're building clean, maintainable, and beautiful applications. This person is responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our APIs that power our web applications. They develop specifications for moderately complex software programming applications and modify/main

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta’s Developer Experience team builds the tools engineers use every day to bring ideas to production rapidly and reliably. You’ll empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level. Example projects include modernizing our CI/CD pipelines, introducing new test frameworks, launching AI-powered dev tools, and scaling developer environments to support a growing engineering team. This team has a wide breadth of impact across all of product engineering. The work we do compounds in value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose and solve bugs, streamline workflows, and ship value to our customers quickly and safely. Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, Github Actions, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! You will: Set direction for critical dev infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth Design and build CI and build systems that ensure Vanta engineers can develop and ship robust products quickly and confidently Improve the efficiency and reliability of our deployment workflows, including tools for hotfixes, rollbacks, and incident mitigation Lead development of tools that accelerate feedback loops — from typechecking and linting to running tests and deploying changes Build and maintain scalable developmen

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -72.3%

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Product Security team is responsible for managing the security processes, policies and controls to secure Plaid’s developer and consumer facing products.The product security team is focused on areas like Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Secure Development Lifecycle, Penetration Testing and Cloud Security. We build the services and components that protect Plaid’s products. We move security "left" by engineering common libraries, modules, and workflows that make the secure path the easiest path for all Plaid engineers. Plaid is looking for a Product Security Engineer who is a builder to join our Product Security team. Unlike traditional Product security roles, this position is for a Senior software engineer who wants to solve security challenges at scale by designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks. Our goal is to make the "secure path" the only path for Plaid developers. The Role You will lead, design and develop security capabilities to manage vulnerabilities lifecycle and automate workflows to reduce KTLO toil. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s VM Orchestration service and build solutions to eliminate the entire vulnerability classes. You

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Luau App Foundations team is responsible for the core infrastructure of the Roblox application. They bridge the gap between app and the performance-heavy Roblox game engine. This team is building the unified stack that powers mission-critical surfaces like Home, Avatar, and Social for millions of concurrent users. They are the ones who make it possible for "Web-style" development efficiency to exist within a high-performance C++ game engine. Why is this role exciting: Technical Pioneer: You will be writing libraries and modules using C++ inside a world class Roblox proprietary Game Engine. Systematic Impact: This is a "Force Multiplier" role. The frameworks and components you build will be used by dozens of other engineering teams to ship their features. Complex Problem Solving: You aren’t just building an app; you’re managing smooth data flow through a client that has to perform perfectly on a $100 Android phone and a $3,000 Gaming PC simultaneously. 0 to 1 Transitions: You will lead the charge in shaping some of the most crucial components of the App written in C++ inside the Game Engine. Key Challenges: Bridging Tech Stacks: The libraries you write sit between a modern UI (written in

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $243.3K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete m

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity The mission of the Monetization team is to establish our product-led packaging, subscription model, and billing and scale them as we expand and grow our business. Our team is responsible for building robust Billing systems, focusing on payments, renewals, sales tax, and revenue. We also work closely with all the teams to integrate their products with our packaging model thus offering our customers the best features, pricing, and services through self-serve purchases and our Sales channels. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineer who will lead our initiatives for a powerful config-driven platform, improving customer purchase experience and working on the internal tools to match the scale of the growth of Postman. What You'll Do Work on our core Monetization platform to improve offer management, including packaging, plans and pricing, which support the pre-purchase workflow and on our Billing platform to improve data capture for revenue recognition and ARR reporting. Lead the active development of our internal services to introduce new frameworks, optimize the APIs, and improve scale and reliability. Contribu

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $168K/yr

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MongoDB’s Developer Productivity organization exists to help engineers build and deliver high-quality software through a highly effective software development process and a strong foundation of shared tools and services. We are looking for a Senior Director to lead our Pipeline team. This role is tasked with bringing together the major systems and experiences that power software delivery at MongoDB. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, secure, and effective platform for ensuring fast software deployability, leveraging AI native approaches. We are open to in-office, flexible or remote hiring across the US. The Team The Pipeline organization sits within Developer Productivity and is responsible for the systems, services, and user experiences that define MongoDB’s software delivery ecosystem. This is mission-critical infrastructure operating at substantial scale and supports a variety of software product delivery needs. Success in this role requires excellent product judgment for developer-facing experiences, strong systems and platform leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams around a cohesive strategy. Candidate Profile We’re looking for a senior engineering leader who can unify product-minded developer tooling with deep platform and operational excellence. The right candidate is passionate about developer productivity and has a track record of leading managers and teams through organizational growth, technical complexity, and cross-functional change. They should be comfortable owning a broad portfolio that spans developer experience, reliability and scale, release systems, telemetry, and operational health. They should also be able to work effectively with senior leaders and partners across engineering and product to set direction, allocate resources, and make trade-offs that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform function. The right candidate for this role will 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience bui

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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The Engineering Lead Analyst – Test Automation Platform Engineering is a senior-level technical leadership role responsible for driving the architecture, implementation, management, operational support, and continuous enhancement of enterprise test management and automation platforms. In this role, you will lead efforts to modernize test automation capabilities across the global technology ecosystem. You will architect end-to-end integration workflows, embed automated quality gates into enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and administer as well as operationally support both vendor and internally developed enterprise platforms (e.g., Core Performance Engineering / Performance Center, ALM-Quality Center, Zephyr Enterprise, CSDP / Octane). Additionally, you will play a critical role in production operations—delivering tier-3 platform support to rapidly and safely troubleshoot, triage, and remediate performance and availability issues in complex, distributed production environments. The ideal candidate blends deep hands-on expertise in software testing frameworks, modern DevOps pipelines, containerized infrastructure, message-driven integration, and robust operational resilience practices with strong governance, compliance, and stakeholder leadership skills. Key Responsibilities 1. Platform Engineering & Operational Support Install, configure, upgrade, administer, and support enterprise test management and performance engineering toolsets (e.g., Core Performance Engineering / Performance Center, ALM-Quality Center, Zephyr Enterprise, Core Software Development Platform [CSDP] / Octane). Provide end-to-end operational support for

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $225K/yr

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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to serve as a technical leader and strategic contributor within our Product Security team. This role goes beyond execution — you will drive the evolution of CLEAR’s application security posture by influencing architecture, shaping security engineering processes, and mentoring team members in security and engineering. You’ll lead security initiatives across the organization and help embed security into every stage of our software development lifecycle. What you'll do: Drive security strategy and implementation across all CLEAR products and engineering teams, ensuring consistent protection of customer and business-critical assets. Partner with engineering leadership to align application security initiatives with company-wide technology and product roadmaps, balancing innovation with risk mitigation. Provide technical leadership across CLEAR’s application security initiatives, guiding architecture, design, and development to meet high security standards. Serve as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams — including Engineering, DevOps, Product, GRC, and IT — enabling secure-by-design practices across the organization. Design and drive implementation of scalable automated security controls and testing frameworks integrated into CLEAR’s CI/CD pipelines. Lead complex threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments across high-value systems and platforms, driving meaningful security outcomes. Engage with CLEAR's customers to provide insight and support their fraud and ident

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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Citibank, N.A. seeks an Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst for its Tampa, Florida location. Duties: Responsible for source code review to ensure it satisfies good coding practice. Coordinate all communication between tech team and Ab Initio vendor, including scheduling and chairing weekly meetings. Responsible for reconfiguration and reengineering to optimize performance. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Manage the hardware infrastructure and monitor the performance metrices E2E. Identify areas of growth need and proposal scale up activities. Execute on scale up activities by submitting procurement requests, manage regular calls with the deployment team and plan go live/switch activity. Develop shell scripting code base to support the job executions, interactions between systems. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols. Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field and 6 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Associate Director – Data Engineering, Senior Consultant, Data Specialist, Assistant Systems Engineer or related position involving gathering new business requirements, architecture, analysis, estimation, design, implementation, and leading a team of software developers and software development. 6 years of experience must include: Experience with AbInitio Data Processing (SME), Data Modeling

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