Lead IT Data Engineer

Brookdale Senior Living•Brentwood, TN

About The Position

Recognized by Newsweek in 2024 and 2025 as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity Make Lives Better Including Your Own. If you want to work in an environment where you can become your best possible self, join us! You’ll earn more than a paycheck; you can find opportunities to grow your career through professional development, as well as ongoing programs catered to your overall health and wellness. Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans are available and vary by employment status. Part and Full Time Benefits Eligibility Medical, Dental, Vision insurance 401(k) Associate assistance program Employee discounts Referral program Early access to earned wages for hourly associates (outside of CA) Optional voluntary benefits including ID theft protection and pet insurance Full Time Only Benefits Eligibility Paid Time Off Paid holidays Company provided life insurance Adoption benefit Disability (short and long term) Flexible Spending Accounts Health Savings Account Optional life and dependent life insurance Optional voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity Insurance, and legal plan Tuition reimbursement Base pay in range will be determined by applicant’s skills and experience. Role is also eligible for team based bonus opportunities. Temporary associates are not benefits eligible but may participate in the company’s 401(k) program. Veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses are encouraged to apply. To support our associates in their journey to become a U.S. citizen, Brookdale offers to advance fees for naturalization (Form N-400) application costs, up to $725, less applicable taxes and withholding, for qualified associates who have been with us for at least a year. The application window is anticipated to close within 30 days of the date of the posting. Responsibilities Builds high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, while providing expertise in all areas of full stack development. Progression with demonstrated knowledge of additional software frameworks as well as knowledge of multiple areas within Brookdale. Self-starter that demonstrates excellent communication and problem solving skills with a focus on customer service, mentoring associates and ensuring products meet or exceed operational requirements. Collaboratively participates in all areas of delivery from analysis, development, configuration, testing, implementation and support of software applications. Analyze, design, develop, test, document, and implement new and existing applications and solutions do deliver high quality, scalable solutions to meet business objectives and operational requirements. Drive application/architecture design and development reviews as appropriate to ensure working within appropriate technology/standards. Assist in the change management process, including presentations and approvals in the change management process, and adherence to the defined change management guidelines. This includes actively working to improve the change management process. Mentor and train team members on the change management process. Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to support business objectives and continual improvement of team dynamics. Work to implement ideas to improve the development environment, best practices and team dynamics. Promote the identification and resolution of application and technical issues (monitor sustainability, issue identification and resolution) enabling the optimization of uptime of application and operational support. Focus on elimination of recurrences by conducting root cause analysis and identifying remediation strategy. Actively participates in continuous learning of technology, understands its applicability to solve business objectives, designs and implements solutions where appropriate. Stay up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends. Maintain external relationships to develop state of the art knowledge in emerging technologies and to stay abreast of the latest thinking in technology arenas. Mentors team members on best practices for new technologies. Expert ability to adapt to, create and implement different technology interfaces, platforms and frameworks and mentor team members. Focused on delivery of high quality solutions and improvements in customer experience and operational excellence with forethought for adaptability to future platforms. Enterprise thinking not just tactical. Drive strategic vision and strategy with team to enable the execution of scalable and sophisticated solutions to solve common business needs with forethought for adaptability to future platforms This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or other related area, or equivalent experience is required.
Minimum 5 years of related experience is required.
Has a working knowledge of a skill or discipline that requires basic analytic ability.
Has an overall understanding of the work environment and process.
Has a working knowledge of the organization.
Expert experience with database technologies and CRUD concepts.
Expert in database design and tuning for solutions that require creative investigation and evaluation of alternative architectural solutions.
Advanced experience with unit, integration and acceptance testing.
Drives maximizing application test coverage.
Expertise with unit testing packages and concepts, automated testing and TDD.
Drives integration of TDD and automated testing into processes.
Expert experience using Application design patterns and mentoring team members on their use and appropriate selection criteria.
Modifies and creates design patterns.
Successful experience working in an IT applications team environment, preferably Scrum, as an actively involved team member.
Mentoring other team members in IT applications process.
Has obtained at least one IT applications certification.
Supportive of team members and other teams through effective collaboration.
Positive influence on peers and technical staff within the team.
Collaborates with internal customers and work teams across departments utilizing exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills.
Leads cross functional teams of a diverse set of individuals.
Mentors team members on collaboration, verbal, written and presentation skills.
Positive influence and embody Brookdale cornerstones.
Exceptional mastery in multiple languages and databases with and a passion to learn anything you don’t know.
Mentors others and serves as a SME to team members.
Proven knowledge of multiple major business areas within Brookdale and ability to articulate business personas and the operational flows for those areas of the organization.
Supports Product Owner and Team in understanding of business areas.
Mentors others in business process.
Collaborates with business to improve processes and operational flows.
Effective in diplomatically challenging status quo at all levels of the organization when appropriate to find better ways to our residents.
Commitment to action over process, bureaucracy and status quo.

Nice To Haves

7 years of information systems experience, including 4 years of experience directly developing enterprise-grade applications is preferred.
Relevant technical certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

Builds high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications, while providing expertise in all areas of full stack development.
Progression with demonstrated knowledge of additional software frameworks as well as knowledge of multiple areas within Brookdale.
Self-starter that demonstrates excellent communication and problem solving skills with a focus on customer service, mentoring associates and ensuring products meet or exceed operational requirements.
Collaboratively participates in all areas of delivery from analysis, development, configuration, testing, implementation and support of software applications.
Analyze, design, develop, test, document, and implement new and existing applications and solutions do deliver high quality, scalable solutions to meet business objectives and operational requirements.
Drive application/architecture design and development reviews as appropriate to ensure working within appropriate technology/standards.
Assist in the change management process, including presentations and approvals in the change management process, and adherence to the defined change management guidelines.
This includes actively working to improve the change management process.
Mentor and train team members on the change management process.
Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to support business objectives and continual improvement of team dynamics.
Work to implement ideas to improve the development environment, best practices and team dynamics.
Promote the identification and resolution of application and technical issues (monitor sustainability, issue identification and resolution) enabling the optimization of uptime of application and operational support.
Focus on elimination of recurrences by conducting root cause analysis and identifying remediation strategy.
Actively participates in continuous learning of technology, understands its applicability to solve business objectives, designs and implements solutions where appropriate.
Stay up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends.
Maintain external relationships to develop state of the art knowledge in emerging technologies and to stay abreast of the latest thinking in technology arenas.
Mentors team members on best practices for new technologies.
Expert ability to adapt to, create and implement different technology interfaces, platforms and frameworks and mentor team members.
Focused on delivery of high quality solutions and improvements in customer experience and operational excellence with forethought for adaptability to future platforms.
Enterprise thinking not just tactical.
Drive strategic vision and strategy with team to enable the execution of scalable and sophisticated solutions to solve common business needs with forethought for adaptability to future platforms

Benefits

Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans are available and vary by employment status.
Part and Full Time Benefits Eligibility Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
401(k)
Associate assistance program
Employee discounts
Referral program
Early access to earned wages for hourly associates (outside of CA)
Optional voluntary benefits including ID theft protection and pet insurance
Full Time Only Benefits Eligibility Paid Time Off
Paid holidays
Company provided life insurance
Adoption benefit
Disability (short and long term)
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account
Optional life and dependent life insurance
Optional voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity Insurance, and legal plan
Tuition reimbursement