Columbia Sportswear

Job Summary:

The Sr Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery and sphere of influence is for a single squad.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area.

Contributes to and helps refine the team's backlog. Applies knowledge to partner with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Helps inform delivery estimates (story points) and prioritization. Identifies dependencies and influences the product roadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.

Participates in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team.

Seeks to understand application architecture for the squad's broader area of responsibility, including partner teams. Starts to partner with Solution Architects to understand, define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implements reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost-effective solutions that drive the right business value.

Mentors junior and intermediate individuals in the squad on technical delivery. Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn.

Establishes and manages quality standards. Leverages automation where possible. Ensures application performance, uptime, and scale. Participates in peer code reviews. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs, security risks, and bottlenecks. Improves software development lifecycle. Creates and maintains support playbooks.

Monitors and observes health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Diagnoses performance issues found in monitoring. Identifies and implements new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders.

Employs DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions. Stays current on technology landscape. Ensures that solutions stay modern, simple, and secure.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 5-8 years of professional experience and strong competency with the various tools, systems, or procedures required to accomplish the job.
• 3+ years of designing Big Data 3+ years of designing Big Data systems and processes in a Cloud environment
• Advanced expertise in SQL and query optimization techniques; 2+ years’ experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, PySpark)
• Experience in design and development of an Enterprise CI/CD process
• 2+ years experience with a variety of Microsoft Azure services (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and SQLDB) and processes in a Cloud environment; Advanced expertise in SQL and query optimization techniques
• 2+ years’ experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, PySpark)
• Experience in design and development of an Enterprise CI/CD process
• 2+ years experience with a variety of Microsoft Azure services (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and SQLDB)
• Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language Azure stack experience preferred (Logic and Function apps) Knowledge of database systems (SQL)
• Experience in creating automation of repeatable tasks
• Strong understanding of data design concepts
• Familiarity with SDLC and change management
• Demonstrated ability to create logical flow diagrams
• Excellent project and time management skills
• Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams, and manage partner expectations
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to evaluate processes and drive improvement
• Ability to foster new ideas and concepts and make decisions surrounding complex issues
• Functional understanding of data architecture concepts
• Intermediate understanding of privacy laws and regulations
• Exposure to wholesale and/or retail solutions preferred
• Experience with Data Catalogs, business glossaries, data governance, and metadata management preferred
• Experience defining and implementing Data Governance models based on industry best-practices preferred
• Travel: None
• Work Schedule: Standard Hours

Career Band: Professional

Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:

• Problem Solving: Solves complex problems and develops independent creative solutions based on the evaluation of multiple options.
• Decisions: Independently analyzes issues of a diverse scope and functions with a moderate degree of autonomy. Receives minimal direction, seeks guidance for highly complex issues.
• Knowledge: In depth knowledge of principles, concepts, and theories within own discipline and working knowledge of related disciplines. Applies broader knowledge of industry standards/practices to assignments and others.
• Business Acumen: Understands best practices; is aware of the differences between the company and its competition in the supported function. Understands how their own functional area integrates with others to deliver results.
• Communication & Influence: Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. May provide process and subject matter advice.
• Impact: Work performed will have impact on cross-functional projects beyond the department.
• Leadership: No supervisory responsibility. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements:

Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements:

Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires collaboration and the ability to communicate with others to exchange information while in a typical office setting. Collaboration is generally conducted in person unless the role has been pre-approved for remote work.

Job Summary:

The Software Engineer II designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery and sphere of influence is for a single squad.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area.

Contributes to and helps refine the team's backlog. Partners with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Helps inform delivery estimates (story points). Seeks to understand prioritization and sequencing decisions. Seeks to understand key dependencies. Helps inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap.

Participates in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through participation in practices such as pair programming.

Seeks to understand application architecture for the squad's limited area of responsibility.

Participates in peer mentoring.

Follows quality standards. Leverages automation where possible. Ensures application performance, uptime, and scale. Participates in peer code reviews. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs, security risks, and bottlenecks. Improves software development lifecycle. Leverages and maintains support playbooks.

Employs DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions.

Starts exploring new technologies and ways of software delivery. Assists with the implementation of proof-of-concepts to experiment with new ideas.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 2-4 years of professional experience, and general proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Exposure to data services in a cloud computing platform
• Experience coding in one of the following languages (Python, Scala, SQL, PowerShell) Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new software development tools
• Ability to participate and contribute in a team environment, and to work with users of all levels to identify requirements and deliver timely results
• Ability to grasp new technologies rapidly, break down data issues and resolve them
• Solid technical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Sound judgment and decision-making, and the appropriate sense of urgency.
• Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language, strongly preferred
• Azure experience preferred (Logic and Function apps)
• Knowledge of database systems (SQL)
• Strong project and time management skills
• Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Exposure to wholesale and/or retail solutions preferred
• Experience with Data Catalogs, business glossaries, data governance, and metadata management preferred
• Travel: None
• Work Schedule: Standard Hours

Career Band: Professional

Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:

• Problem Solving: Solves a variety of problems that may be somewhat difficult and varied in nature. Consults with staff members on more complex issues.
• Decisions: Exercises judgment within defined parameters to make decisions on tasks with limited scope or complexity. Receives moderate level of guidance and direction on complex tasks.
• Knowledge: Working knowledge of the principles, practices and concepts within own job discipline; has broadened capability through practical experience in applying theories.
• Business Acumen: Understands key business drivers; demonstrates knowledge of the organization and processes; uses this understanding to accomplish their own work.
• Communication & Influence: Explains and simplifies complex information to others; leads the coordination of information to ensure ongoing process or program execution.
• Impact: Impact is typically limited to the department.
• Leadership: No supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements:

Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements:

Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires collaboration and the ability to communicate with others to exchange information while in a typical office setting. Collaboration is generally conducted in person unless the role has been pre-approved for remote work.

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