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As a current employee you know Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country and we move America's workforce toward the future. The safety of our passengers, our more than 20,000 colleagues, the public and our operating environment is our priority and the success of our railroad is the result of you.
By living the Amtrak values and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future. SUMMARY OF DUTIES: The Lead Technologist is a lead technical role and works on one or more projects of moderate complexity as the technology subject matter expert. When involved with a project team, acts in a consultative manner and typically does not provide administrative or management type of support. Works on moderately complex tasks and projects and support issues that involve a degree of risk or may impact business unit performance. Utilizes individual level of expertise within one or more areas of specialty. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:- Researches and analyzes technologies within area of required expertise.
- Assesses emerging technologies. Evaluates and may recommend new products or tools for the organization.
- Makes recommendations and influences long-term technology strategy and planning for multiple business units.
- Assists in the development and analysis of source selection strategies.
- Works with service providers to ensure that their in-scope technical solutions are consistent with the enterprise business strategy and architecture.
- Serves as a consultant and escalation point for issues. Provides project managers with technical consultation and advice, enabling quick response to inquiries related to the program/project.
- Provides technical analyses to help define, assess, and monitor the technical aspects of the program/project or service.
- Designs innovative solutions using new technologies. Recommends short-term alternatives when appropriate.
- Troubleshoots existing information systems or networks to identify errors or deficiencies. Brainstorms possible solutions and evaluates alternatives against decision criteria.
- May lead team responsible for the resolution of support issues escalated by senior operations, development personnel or service provider personnel. Works with vendors during the problem resolution process as needed.
- Provides technical expertise across business functions. Identifies opportunities to improve business processes via new technologies.
- Provides support for Sr Principal Technologist's representation of Amtrak relevant, industry forums.
- Administering and configuring JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic application servers
- AWS - Lambda, Dynamo DB, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Kinesis, SNS, SQS
- App Dynamics
- Jenkin automation and Dev-Ops skills
- Development skills using Java, J2EE, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix Shell script, Python script
- MQ Skills
- MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle DB skills and development of writing script
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science, or equivalent work experience.
- 7 to 10 years of relevant technical experience.
- Relevant Engineering Certifications.
- Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be self-motivated
- Must possess working experience utilizing the ITIL Framework for Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management.
- ID: #23055716
- State: District of Columbia Washington 20001 Washington USA
- City: Washington
- Salary: USD TBD TBD
- Job type: Permanent
- Showed: 2021-11-20
- Deadline: 2022-01-18
- Category: Architect/engineer/CAD