AT&T

Lead Software Engineer – Development for AI Applications

AT&T

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: DallasTexasWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $143,800 - $215,800 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines.
  • Perform data research to identify data sources within the ecosystem and apply enrichments to formulate meaningful data points.
  • Implement, optimize and maintain scheduled jobs, batch processors and real-time data ingestion pipelines.
  • Implement event-driven architecture to react to events.
  • Optimize and fine-tune database performance to ensure it can support big data with ideal response times.
  • Design data schemas that can evolve over time and align with strategic goals.
  • Design, Implement and optimize microservices to expose the data to consuming applications.
  • Design caching and data management practices to improve the performance.
  • Ensure the data architecture supports the business requirements.
  • Explore new opportunities for data acquisition and enhance data collection procedures.
  • Explore and identify appropriate segmentation strategies to support RAG implementations.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to learning and adopting emerging technologies, with a particular focus on agentic AI development.

Requirements

  • Over 10 years of experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer, with expertise in software engineering, data engineering, data warehousing, data research, and requirements gathering.
  • Demonstrated expertise in programming languages such as Python and PySpark for executing data engineering tasks.
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in handling unstructured raw data and synthesizing meaningful patterns.
  • Hands-on experience in developing complete ETL pipelines, from source to destination, including data cleansing, transformation and enrichment.
  • Proficiency in PySpark for engineering data pipelines using Databricks on AWS or Azure.
  • Technical prowess in data modeling, data mining, data architectures, and data warehousing.
  • Proficiency in event driven architectures in cloud preferably in Azure (AWS/GCP is are also good).
  • Proficiency in real-time data processing using Kafka.
  • Expertise in a range of database and data warehouse technologies such as SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Bigtable), and data warehouse/data lake technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery).
  • Proficiency in OAUTH providers, Auditing and Logging tools in cloud for monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Expertise in microservices to expose data to consuming applications.
  • Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL is desired; willingness to learn these languages is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with Linux and Docker.
  • Familiarity with Agentic AI application development using frameworks such as ADK with Python.
  • Experience with Power BI and other visualization tools such as Kibana, Grafana, or Tableau.
  • Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) and understanding of distributed data processing frameworks.
  • Ability to manage and delegate work across delivery teams to meet priorities.
  • Skilled in client engagements, deciphering client business needs, and providing data solution recommendations.
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience in designing, developing, and delivering presentations.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonPySparkETLdata modelingdata miningdata architecturereal-time data processingmicroservicesevent-driven architecturedata warehousing
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsclient engagementcommunication skillsteam managementrequirements gatheringadaptabilitylearning commitmentdelegationpresentation skills