Lead Software Engineer

AT&T • Plano, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Software Engineer will coordinate and execute release activities, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of new features and updates. This role involves improving release engineering and operational processes for efficiency and reliability, implementing best practices for release management and CI/CD, and acting as a liaison between different teams, organizations, and stakeholders. The Lead Software Engineer will coordinate release schedules, allocate resources, identify and mitigate risks, and collaborate with development teams on automation tools. They will lead meetings to discuss release schedules, identify roadblocks, and ensure alignment, while also supporting technical teams by engaging on-call resources and monitoring changes. The role requires maintaining comprehensive documentation, deploying and refining engineering workflows, and driving initiatives to modernize release engineering technologies for increased agility. This includes designing interfaces for release management portfolios, planning system solutions, and engaging with stakeholders, architects, and leadership. The position also involves implementing AI-driven release automation tools and integrating AI chatbots into workflows to streamline processes and assist with rollbacks. Experience with Java and Node.js microservices architecture, Azure cloud services, and on-premises platforms is essential, along with performing development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering
• 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a related occupation
• Utilizing Java and Node.js microservices architecture
• Utilizing Azure cloud services and on-premises platforms
• Performing development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and execute release activities, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of new features and updates.
• Implement best practices for release management and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Act as liaison between different teams, organizations, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate release schedules and allocate resources based on third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates.
• Identify risks that could delay releases and manage/mitigate them to maintain scope, quality, and end-customer experience.
• Collaborate closely with development teams responsible for building automation tools used in software development and deployment.
• Lead and host meetings to discuss release schedules, identify roadblocks, and ensure alignment.
• Support technical teams by engaging on-call resources and monitoring changes to release and deployment processes.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation related to build, test, and release procedures.
• Deploy and refine engineering workflows to increase efficiency, reliability, and scalability of release operations.
• Identify risks impacting release schedules and apply mitigation strategies to protect scope, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Serve as a bridge between teams, organizations, and stakeholders, communicating plans, timelines, and requirements effectively.
• Lead release schedule meetings, identify roadblocks early, and coordinate with development teams to build automation tools for deployment.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for build, test, and release procedures, while tracking release performance metrics.
• Drive initiatives to modernize release engineering technologies and processes, enabling on-demand and independent component deployments to increase agility and responsiveness.
• Design and interface for specific components of applications/microServices in a release management portfolio.
• Plan, define, and high-level design of the system solution and explore alternatives.
• Engage with portfolio stakeholders, Solution and Enterprise Architects, to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of tech enablers or applications/microServices in release portfolio.
• Participate in project planning, system and solution demos, retrospective workshops.
• Communicate with executive leadership, business leaders as well as technical stakeholders.
• Drive release management process and tool transformation leading to on demand, independent component deployments.
• Implement AI-driven release automation tools to streamline code deployment processes, creation of runbooks using AI tools.
• Integrate AI-driven chatbots or virtual assistants into release workflows to streamline communication, auto-update release statuses, and assist with rollback procedures.
• Perform development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior