Senior Engineering Lead

When you join Verizon

Verizon is a leading provider of technology, communications, information and entertainment products, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our ambition and united in our shared purpose to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

Verizon Network Systems is looking for a highly skilled Senior Engineering Lead. This role will help guide individual engineering scrum teams in developing and delivering automation solutions to improve our leading 5G network build intervals, You will be responsible for the developing and shipping quality software that solves some of the hardest challenges in automation: Your goal is to lead your individual scrum team and collaborate with partnering teams to deliver our ecosystem of platforms, services, and applications that drives efficiency, scalability, reliability, and security for both our internal and external customers. We are looking for a technical innovator with strong engineering instincts and a collaborative, empathetic approach to their work.

• Build and lead a team of software engineers which will work in a Scrum of Scrums environment to build a highly sophisticated multi-agent orchestration platform.
• Lead the implementation of various systems and components that are critical to our core platform.
• Hands-on software development and ownership of your team’s pieces of our platforms and products.
• Engage collaboratively with product management to help guide vision, roadmap, prioritization, and balance tradeoffs to optimize the speed at which we can delight our customers.
• Drive resolution of technical issues, cross-leveraging of technologies, and overall collaboration by working with cross-functional teams from multiple business units within Verizon.
• Mentor, manage, and foster the professional development of our new engineers.
• Design and code review of teammates’ work.
  
  **This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager. **

What we’re looking for...

You have the ability to drive alignment across a diverse array of perspectives, and find your joy in both solving exceptionally difficult problems, writing code and mentoring the next generation of software engineers.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Three or more years of experience with IP management softwares and related M&Ps, algorithms, security management etc.

Even better if you have:

• Eight or more years of experience developing complex platforms.
• Eight or more years of experience designing, building and shipping large-scale software services and solutions.
• Mastery of multi-platform, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Mastery of DevSecOps, including CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and threat mitigation and response, with an emphasis on ransomware attacks.
• Broad technical skills and understanding of full stack cloud applications, high performance compute, data analytics, and data security + governance models.
• A willingness to lead by example, a dedication to alignment and harmony, and a proven ability to influence both senior executives and independent project teams with competing interests to achieve consensus.
• Understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical or religious reasons).