Avalara

Overview

We are looking for a talented, highly motivated Technical Lead/Senior Technical Lead to join our team!

In this role, you should be able to work independently with little supervision and be responsible for gathering business requirements, understanding complex product, business, and engineering challenges, composing and prioritizing research projects, and then executing them in partnership with cloud engineers and architects, as well as leveraging the work of our data engineering team. 

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs on a large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services layer.
• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining a roadmap for the area and the team.
• Analyze fault tolerance and high availability issues, performance, and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and technical program managers across teams.
• Understand the trade-offs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions that can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Ensure the operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance SLAs.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery.
• Communicate the status and big picture to the project team and management.
• Work with business and engineering teams to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
• Identify risks and opportunities across the business and drive solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/master’s degree in computer science
• 12+ years of enterprise-class experience with large scale cloud solutions in data engineering projects and DevOps. AWS is a highly desirable. Google Cloud and Azure are a plus.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent.
• Excellent experience in AWS data engineering ecosystem and Snowflake tools and services
• Experience working in software engineering CI/CD processes and pipelines, with experience in the design and implementation of automated test, build, release, deployment, containerization, and configuration control management.
• Experience with migrating, architecting, designing, building, and implementing cloud data lake, data warehouses (cloud/on-prem), data mesh, data as a service, and cloud data marketplace.
• Perform analysis on existing data storage system and develop of data solutions in Snowflake.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units.

Technologies you are likely to be working with:

AWS, GitLab, Python, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, HashiCorp suite, Snowflake, Grafana, Docker, Airflow, containerization technologies etc.

About Avalara

About Avalara:

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities:

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.