Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Enablement

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer to join our Cloud Enablement team at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. — This is a brand-new group helping Software Engineering teams across Garmin to build and design modern cloud native solutions.

Our mission:

To partner with software engineering teams across the company to guide their technology transformations, accelerate cloud adoption, and define standards and best practices that raise the bar for how Garmin builds software. We influence all types of development teams — from customer-facing applications and internal tools to manufacturing engineering systems — all sharing a common goal: delivering reliability and scalability for their business domain.
As part of this team, your role will be focused on setting application development standards in two main public cloud providers (Azure, AWS) by adjusting their Architecture frameworks to Garmin’s standards.

Essential Functions

• Leads complex multi-system application development projects and drives collaboration with other teams/departments
• Provides technical input to solution development plans/concept documents and collaborates and adds value in design reviews
• Develops and supports integrations between multiple systems and/or applications
• Maintains, improves, and extends existing multi-system software and works collaboratively with Analysts/users to design software systems and develop/implement unit and system testing processes
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives
• Understands business impacts of issues as they relate to IT owned solutions, provides reliable solutions to wide range of difficult problems including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions, and consistently looks at opportunity in all change
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers (Software Engineer 1 & 2)
• Demonstrates broad understanding of Garmin’s business model including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales & Marketing
• Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
• Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in writing software (Java, Python, or C#)
• Demonstrated expertise in Public Cloud to the extend of leading an application migration
• Must demonstrate proficiency and possess the experience necessary to design, enhance and develop single and multi-system applications
• Demonstrated experience with micro-services distributed environments and version control systems (ex. GIT)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Previous experience working in a team environment
• Previous experience in Consulting services to engineers.
• Demonstrated proficiency/experience with resiliency techniques such as load balancers, circuit breakers, caching, etc.
• Demonstrated proficient knowledge of secure coding practices
• Proficiency in Java Spring Framework
• Experience with Kubernetes, Public Cloud solution (Azure/AWS), RabbitMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL
• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Previous experience working in a global team environment using Agile Scrum framework

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits