Lead Software Engineer

AT&T•Plano, TX

3d•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 various teams and stakeholders. The position requires leading meetings, supporting technical teams, maintaining documentation, and driving initiatives to modernize release engineering technologies. A key aspect is the integration of AI-driven tools for automation, chatbots, and virtual assistants to streamline workflows and communication. The role also involves designing and interfacing with specific components of applications/microservices within a release management portfolio, participating in project planning, and communicating with executive leadership and technical stakeholders.

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

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-driven release automation tools
Experience with AI-driven chatbots or virtual assistants in release workflows
Experience with release engineering and operational processes
Experience with CI/CD best practices
Experience with build, test, and release procedures documentation
Experience with release performance metrics tracking
Experience with modernizing release engineering technologies and processes
Experience with on-demand and independent component deployments
Experience with system and solution demos
Experience with retrospective workshops

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).
Communicate release-related tasks such as plans, timelines, and requirements clearly.
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