Software Engineer - Specialist

Equifax•Alpharetta, GA

35d•Hybrid

About The Position

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy 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. To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Atlanta, GA or St.Louis, MO. You are required to adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

Requirements

Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise to operate independently and provide informal leadership to others
Uses sophisticated critical thinking skills, leading others to solve complex problems and takes a broad perspective to identify innovation solutions
Makes decisions guided by policies in nonstandard situations that impact the achievement of customer, operational, or project objectives
Forecasts and plans resource requirements for complex projects or initiatives

Nice To Haves

Generative AI: Experience with Vertex AI and/or working on advanced Generative AI (Gen AI) and agentic applications.
AI/ML Ops: Experience with BQML (BigQuery ML) and implementing AI Observability tools for drift detection and model performance.
Data Skills: Experience designing and developing Big Data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, Composer/Airflow, and others.
Coding Skills: Strong experience with Java, Python and/or R language for data systems.
Methodology: Strong experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and cross-functional product teams.
Leadership Qualities: Demonstrated problem-solving skills, strong leadership qualities, and the ability to mentor and develop engineers.

Responsibilities

Deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures.
Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners.
Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters.
Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers
Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs.
Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books.
Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity.
Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
Perform R&D, prototyping/PoC of cloud-native solutions
Design and develop cloud-native solutions.
Design and development of big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others.
Design and development of micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubeneties
Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs