Backend Engineer

• own the technical direction and architecture across several teams building API capabilities
• establish the engineering practices that teams build on
• define how APIs are designed and governed at scale
• lead the effort to embed AI-powered capabilities into the developer experience
• lead the design and delivery of AI capabilities embedded into the developer platform
• architect and build MCP servers exposing the enterprise API catalog as a queryable context
• participate in architecture reviews, design documents, and pull requests

Principal Engineer, API Platform

• Design AND implement core services for the enterprise Notifications platform, including APIs, event-driven integrations, orchestration components, templates, and platform capabilities
• Write, review, debug, and optimize production code actively
• Build cloud-native backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, microservices, and container technologies
• Develop and integrate AI/GenAI capabilities hands-on
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues directly
• Work closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, development teams and vendor teams to convert requirements into working solutions

Senior Java Developer

• Developing and deploying scalable and elegant code
• Work with distributed systems and data pipelines
• Lead and drive projects to completion
• Innovating on creative solutions to difficult problems
• Work with related data infrastructure technologies

• Serve as a key technical contributor on the DHI Online Scrum Team, developing and supporting enterprise applications that support TransUnion's Insurance business.
• Lead the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of secure, scalable applications using the Microsoft .NET technology stack.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, Product Management, Project Management, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Play a significant role in the development and ongoing evolution of the TransUnion Telematics platform and related insurance products.
• Design and implement integrations with internal systems and external business partners while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.
• Support architecture decisions, application modernization efforts, and cloud adoption initiatives that improve performance, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions that improve platform stability and user experience.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD processes, automated testing practices, and deployment pipelines to enable efficient software delivery.
• Ensure development activities align with security best practices, regulatory requirements, and enterprise software development standards.
• Contribute to project planning, solution estimation, technical documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives across the development lifecycle.

Senior .NET Developer

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Own the commercial technology stack that powers how we find, win, and retain customers.
• Be the primary owner of Salesforce, HubSpot, Clay, and the integrations between them.
• Diagnose, build, test, ship — without a dedicated engineering team to hand off to.

Go To Market Engineer

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• Investigate and resolve production issues and customer-reported bugs.
• Contribute to system design discussions and architectural decisions.
• Continuously improve code quality, testing practices, and development processes.

Senior Backend Software Engineer, NodeJS

• Lead the development of large-scale software applications, ensuring high quality and adherence to our quality-first standards
• Influence critical architectural decisions, ensuring that systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical decisions and drive improvements
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and setting technical standards across projects
• Take ownership of technical initiatives, proactively address challenges, and drive improvements based on data reported by support teams
• Advocate for and implement quality assurance practices, ensuring the delivery of robust, high-performance software
• Contribute to additional responsibilities as needed to support the team’s success

Senior Software Engineer, Java

• Assist in the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, API-first solutions
• Apply AI-assisted development practices to accelerate solution delivery
• With guidance, convert well-defined concepts and ideas into solutions
• Assist in analyzing and modifying existing business applications and processes
• Diagnose and resolve routine problems in the maintenance and support of business applications
• Interact with client and technical teams to define requirements and develop solutions
• Provide input when reviewing new business application designs
• Collaborate with the business and management teams to develop efficient plans, processes, timelines and work required

Java Developer I

• As one of Copperleaf’s Account Managers you will be assigned customer accounts and drive the identification and qualification of opportunities while executing account strategy and generating license, support and services revenues.
• This role is focused on working with established Copperleaf and IFS clients.
• Work with your assigned accounts to build a network of relationships across multiple functional areas and levels of the organization.
• Deeply understand each account’s challenges and opportunities in the portfolio planning and asset management spaces.
• Identify how Copperleaf can make a difference to the account’s business and to the personal success of our champions.
• Co-create a solution roadmap with accounts where it makes sense for us to engage.
• Drive the procurement and commercial processes to successfully close business.
• Lead a Copperleaf “deal team” to support both solution definition and sales process execution.
• Champion the needs of your customer and your deal internally within Copperleaf.
• Continuously gather knowledge of competitors and how to effectively position our solution.
• Drive a sales process that will highlight our solution as a strategic advantage to the prospect.
• Routinely discuss and communicate opportunity plan sales strategy with other members of the account team, as well as field and corporate management.
• Maintain an accurate and documented pipeline of opportunities (prospects and suspects) within CRM.

Strategic Account Executive, Utilities – Install Base

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, reference architectures, and decision frameworks for AI/ML platforms and adjacent technology domains.
• Establish architecture standards that promote reuse, interoperability, resiliency, security, and speed-to-market across products, platforms, and shared services.
• Drive architecture convergence across teams to reduce fragmentation, duplicate capabilities, technical debt, and long-term operational cost.
• Partner with senior technology and business leaders to ensure architecture roadmaps directly support strategic priorities and measurable business outcomes.
• Own the end-to-end architectural direction for enterprise AI/ML platform capabilities, including model integration, inference services, retrieval patterns, orchestration, and automation.
• Define production-grade patterns for observability, scalability, model/data traceability, policy enforcement, and responsible AI controls.
• Ensure platform capabilities can support secure onboarding of AI/ML use cases across DEV, UAT, and PROD environments with clear guardrails and repeatable patterns.
• Guide platform investment decisions by balancing innovation, risk, cost, operational complexity, and business value.
• Lead enterprise architecture strategy across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems, including Azure, AWS, on-premises services, data platforms, integration layers, and shared platform capabilities.
• Define architectural patterns for secure data access, service integration, API management, event-driven flows, workload placement, and cost-aware scaling.
• Assess technology options and vendor/platform choices, making recommendations that balance enterprise standards, delivery velocity, security posture, and total cost of ownership.
• Ensure solution architectures align to enterprise security, compliance, resiliency, performance, and operational support requirements.
• Lead the architecture community of practice, establishing forums, review mechanisms, and decision processes that improve consistency without slowing delivery.
• Provide senior technical stewardship across domains, resolving complex cross-platform dependencies and ensuring end-to-end solution integrity.
• Coach and mentor architects, senior engineers, and technical leaders to raise architectural maturity and systems-thinking capability across the organization.
• Represent architecture in executive, risk, compliance, product, and engineering governance forums.
• Define architecture guardrails for security, privacy, compliance, data protection, model governance, auditability, and responsible AI.
• Identify and manage architectural risk across platforms, integrations, dependencies, and production operations.
• Ensure risk decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and aligned with enterprise control expectations.
• Translate complex architecture choices into clear executive-level recommendations, tradeoffs, risk implications, and investment options.
• Influence senior stakeholders across business, product, technology, security, and operations to align on enterprise architecture priorities and roadmap sequencing.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology leadership on platform strategy, modernization, vendor decisions, emerging technologies, and long-term capability planning.
• Drive alignment between architecture strategy, portfolio funding, delivery execution, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish architecture-led operating mechanisms that improve transparency, dependency management, delivery predictability, and production readiness.
• Partner with engineering and platform leaders to ensure architectural decisions are reflected in backlogs, roadmaps, delivery plans, and operational support models.
• Promote disciplined use of Agile practices, Jira hygiene, architecture decision records, structured status reporting, and issue escalation paths.
• Hold teams accountable for solution quality, resiliency, performance, lifecycle ownership, and timely resolution of architectural risks.

AI Platform Chief Architect

• Design, develop, and maintain core backend APIs and services, primarily in Python and FastAPI.
• Translate complex product workflows into clear domain models, relational schemas, service boundaries, and API contracts.
• Build reliable integrations across geospatial, media, reporting, asset management, and third-party vendor systems.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release practices, automated testing, and developer workflows.
• Develop and maintain ETL and data migration processes when needed, especially for imagery, geospatial, and operational data.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure design, security, observability, performance, and production reliability.

Senior Backend Software Engineer

• Lead the technical design and hands-on implementation of core backend APIs and services, primarily in Python and FastAPI
• Set architectural direction for domain models, relational schemas, service boundaries, data consistency, and API contracts
• Translate product priorities into well-scoped delivery plans, milestones, and technical decisions
• Personally lead critical-path development, code reviews, release planning, and incident response
• Set and maintain high standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, performance, and production reliability
• Build reliable integrations across geospatial, media, reporting, asset management, and third-party vendor systems
• Develop and maintain ETL and data migration processes for imagery, geospatial, and operational data
• Directly manage 3 to 4 senior backend engineers through regular one-on-ones, feedback, performance management, and career development, while overseeing nearshore engineers or consultants as needed
• Delegate work effectively, remove delivery blockers, and ensure the team ships high-quality backend systems predictably
• Partner with product, frontend, data, operations, and QA teams to prioritize tradeoffs and deliver customer value
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop strong backend engineers.

Lead Backend Software Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and business logic
• Collaborate with front-end engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders
• Participate in roadmap execution that balances feature delivery with backend health
• Provide technical guidance to junior developers
• Participate in code reviews to ensure solutions align with established engineering standards

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

• Stand up and configure Databricks environments end-to-end
• Design and deploy medallion (bronze/silver/gold) data pipelines
• Establish infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD foundations using Databricks Asset Bundles, Terraform, and GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Build applied AI solutions on Mosaic AI
• Optimize Delta Lake performance and design for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Integrate Databricks with the broader enterprise stack via Lakehouse Federation, Delta Sharing, and more
• Partner with functional and MDM/data governance leads
• Document and communicate architecture decisions

Digital Consulting, Databricks Technical Architect – Manager

• Define architectural vision and solutions aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy
• Evaluate system impacts, determine primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces
• Assist with end-to-end solution design
• Define non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers
• Define and execute cloud and platform architecture strategy aligned with business objectives and enterprise technology standards
• Provide architectural oversight to ensure platform initiatives support scalability, resiliency, reliability, and long‑term evolution
• Educate team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices

Technical Architect

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, frameworks, and technology roadmaps.
• Align business strategy with technology solutions across applications, integrations, infrastructure, and data platforms.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud transformation, API enablement, and platform consolidation.
• Provide architectural guidance for .NET-based systems, integrations, APIs, and microservices.
• Manage development lifecycle activities including planning, estimation, coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment.
• Lead and mentor a team of .NET developers, technical leads, and software engineers.
• Partner with senior business and IT leaders to prioritize technology investments.

Enterprise Architect – .NET Development Lead

• Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.
• Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first‑class engineering concerns.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python.
• Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions with an emphasis on long-term maintainability, reliability, and clarity.
• Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Own the full lifecycle of platform and service components, including design, implementation, deployment, observability, and incident response.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows.
• Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads through reliable backend and platform services.
• Design systems that integrate with relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows.
• Work closely with data engineers and analysts to ensure systems meet requirements for data correctness, availability, and performance.
• Set and evolve best practices for cloud-based data management through platform design, automation, and standards.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy both application and infrastructure code.
• Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis and long-term system improvements following incidents.

Senior Platform Backend Engineer – Battery Storage

• Take extreme ownership: You don’t just close tickets; you own the outcome. If a feature breaks or a customer is stuck, you’re the one who sees the fix through, regardless of where the problem sits in the stack.
• Navigate real complexity: We aren’t doing simple CRUD work. You will be untangling massive systems and solving high-stakes puzzles that require creative thinking and the grit to push through frustration.
• Be a "whatever it takes" engineer: You are flexible. If the frontend lead is out or an infra fire starts, you’re ready to jump in, learn what you don't know, and clear the path for the team.
• Treat AI as a teammate: We use AI tools daily to move faster. You’ll be expected to leverage these tools to solve "impossible" problems and keep our quality bar high.
• Drive the team forward: You’ll provide technical leadership, ensuring we’re making smart decisions and addressing tech debt before it becomes a roadblock.

Senior Software Engineer – GO, Typescript

• Define reusable security architecture patterns and guardrails to enable consistent, secure implementation across high-risk business applications
• Drive secure-by-design initiatives by integrating security considerations early in the software architecture lifecycle and influencing enterprise architecture direction
• Represent security architecture in design authority boards and technical review councils, advocating for risk-based security controls
• Work with in-business IT customers, including application architects and engineers to evaluate application software and infrastructure designs, for the purpose of defining/designing application controls aligned with enterprise standards
• Define application-specific security control architectures and produce design artifacts to guide secure implementation of business-critical systems
• Develop re-usable implementation guidance and design patterns based on previous engagements to scale the service
• Work with information security leadership to develop strategies and plans to enforce security requirements and address identified risks in the infrastructure and applications
• Act as a security architecture liaison to IT delivery and engineering teams, embedding security principles into technical delivery and architecture review forums
• Support security aspects of business & IT initiatives by assisting in architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and operational transition of innovative & secure technology solutions
• Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend and plan the implementation of new or updated information security technologies
• Establish collaborative working relations with the Information Technology functions to ensure that solutions align with security architecture and business strategy
• Play an advisory role in application development or acquisition projects to assess security requirements and controls and to ensure that security controls are implemented as planned
• Complete remediation activities and initiate actions to ensure that compliance and security gaps are successfully addressed
• Research and assess new information security threats and recommend remedial actions
• Foster an information security culture through education, skill development, and implementation of effective information security processes and practices
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle
• Design the security architecture for applications, ensuring all components meet best practices and regulatory compliance
• Work closely with software development, DevOps, and operations teams to integrate security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Lead efforts in identifying potential threats through application threat modeling and propose design changes to mitigate risks

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