Software Engineer - Manager

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds,  and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, diverse and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

The Tribe Leader is accountable for the assigned systems, operations, finances, development, performance as well as the employees for one of the Technology Tribes in the ANZ region.  Working closely with IT and the Tribe’s IT Leadership team, the Tribe Leader ensures that the Tribe is delivering on solutions in sprints while adhering to and continuously improving on the Engineering Handbook principles.  The Tribe Leader also ensures all delivery is compliant with relevant Equifax policies and procedures and follows Agile delivery methodology principles.  The role is accountable for achieving the Tribe’s key performance indicators.

The Tribe Leader co-creates and executes the Tribe strategy by collaborating with relevant leaders from Technology, Product, Operations, D&A, Finance and Delivery organizations. 

The Tribe Leader has an in-depth understanding of the Tribe’s application portfolio, risks, issues, total cost of ownership and key investment initiatives. The Tribe Leader is a member of the Extended A/NZ Technology Leadership team.

What You’ll Do

• Accountable for Tribe's operations, performance, and people, along with financial and budgetary responsibility.

• Technical owner for all Tribe’s applications and platforms.

• Engage in and improve the software delivery  lifecycle – from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation, and refinement.

• Measure tribe performance across people, process and technology and continuously and demonstrably improve.

• Build and maintain global technology and partner relationships to ensure success of the tribe.

• Liaise with Finance to ensure budgets are being tracked to and aligned with forecasts, labour and non-labour.

• Reduce legacy footprint and increase cloud adoption, in accordance with EFX transformation principles.

• Support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning and launch reviews.

• Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health.

• Primary interface and escalation point for leaders (GM-level / Head of-level) across Product, Platform, Operations and D&A or similar.

• Ensure that all Squads have their organisational blockers removed.

• Assist to facilitate capacity conflicts.

• Work with Technology ELT to help run A/NZ Technology organisation as a one team.

• Lead by example and live by the values of Equifax

• Deliver on any other responsibility given by your manager

What experience you need

• 15+ years of experience in IT Industry driving technology and innovation
• BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required

• Demonstrated business acumen and the ability to solve business problems with technology

• 10+ years experience building and operating enterprise scale apps or platforms, preferably leveraging public cloud technologies.

• Experience in Software Engineering, Architecture, Technology Program or Project Management, Lean Process Engineering, Operations, etc.

• Experience with Agile and/or SAFe delivery frameworks

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise risk management 

• Excellent relationship builder with demonstrated ability across functions and businesses

• Experience in leading large multi-span, multi-layered teams

• Excellent  interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others to gain support in a virtual environment, along with strong stakeholder management skills

• Strong communications skills - verbal and written

• Strong decision maker who can manage priorities effectively

• Demonstrate business insight and the ability to anticipate needs and drive success

• Familiarity with security risks with technologies used in squads

What could set you apart

• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular4/5 and Bootstrap)
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Subversion) and build tools like Maven
• Big Data, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4J)
• Design patterns
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD)
• Linux command line and shell scripting languages
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket)
• Experience working in financial services
• Assembly, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Expeditor,CA7, File-Aid in a mainframe
• Experience in COBOL, DB2 in a mainframe environment
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+) or ScalaJa
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop or NoSQL such as Cassandra
• Experience working with open source frameworks; preferably Spring, though we would also consider Ruby, Apache Struts, Symfony, Django, etc.
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI
• Strong knowledge of appropriate programming and scripting languages – Be proficient in .Net, .Net framework 4.5, WCF or related technology, AJAX, and JSON, and some type of automated testing

We offer a hybrid work setting, comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, attractive paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible?  Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

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