[Remote] Software Engineer IV – Data Platforms (Memphis, TN or Remote in USA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - ALSAC is a respected nonprofit dedicated to curing childhood cancer. They are seeking a Software Engineer IV to provide technical leadership for their data platforms, ensuring production stability and architectural integrity while collaborating with various teams to enhance their enterprise analytics ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for platform‑level systems, owning architecture, data flows, and technical standards across products
• Design, build, and maintain robust technical processes spanning multiple technologies, programming languages, and database structures
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment between architecture standards, technical solutions, and business outcomes
• Lead technical design reviews and make informed trade‑off decisions balancing speed, performance, reliability, data integrity, and maintainability
• Own technical oversight for a portfolio of products and services, helping prioritize work across competing demands including delivery commitments, production support, technical debt, and platform modernization
• Influence where engineering effort is invested to maximize organizational value
• Be accountable for production readiness, system reliability, and incident prevention across portfolio systems
• Establish and enforce standards for monitoring, alerting, resiliency patterns, runbooks, and post‑incident reviews
• Drive continuous improvement in platform stability, observability, and operational maturity
• Plan, architect, and lead large‑scale technical initiatives, upgrades, and implementations
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and engineering managers to align technical execution with business priorities
• Introduce and evaluate modern tools and emerging technologies that improve platform capability and sustainability
• Act as a technical lead and mentor to Software Engineers I–III through coaching, design guidance, code reviews, and pair programming
• Support team growth by promoting best practices across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, systems development, and large-scale technical design
• Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms in both on-prem and cloud environments
• Deep expertise in SQL Server / database engineering, including performance tuning, reliability, and troubleshooting long-running or blocking workloads
• Strong understanding of enterprise data ingestion patterns using SQL, APIs, and cloud-based platforms (AWS), with awareness of downstream analytics and warehouse impacts
• Experience with modern data ingestion and transformation tools (e.g., CData, dbt, or equivalent), with a focus on production ownership and maintainability
• Working knowledge of SQL Server replication technologies, including Microsoft Replication and Change Data Capture (CDC)
• Strong skills in process modeling, data modeling, database design, and technical specification creation
• Excellent communication, organization, and planning skills; able to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Hands-on experience with containerization supporting data engineering or AI/ML workloads
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures supporting scalable, reliable data pipelines
• Experience with project planning, technical road-mapping, and deployment strategies

Benefits

• Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
• 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
• Exceptional Paid Time Off
• Maternity / Paternity Leave
• Infertility Treatment Program
• Adoption Assistance
• Education Assistance
• Enterprise Learning and Development

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