Software Engineer Lead

PNC

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Pittsburgh, PADallas, TX
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50 days ago
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PNC is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the U.S., based in Pittsburgh, PA, it provides retail banking, corporate banking, and asset management.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer Lead

As a Software Engineer Lead within the SRC Retail RTB organization, you will provide technical leadership and operational oversight across a diverse portfolio of enterprise applications. You will be responsible for ensuring application reliability, performance, monitoring, reporting, and continuous delivery while supporting modern cloud-native and microservices-based platforms. Your daily work involves managing complex distributed environments, leading incident response, performing root cause analysis, and developing runbooks and recovery procedures. To succeed, you must leverage expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure technologies, and SRE principles to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. The role requires proficiency with ServiceNow, Dynatrace, Elastic Search, and Grafana. You will also utilize coding and database skills to design software solutions that address complex business needs while ensuring high-quality technical documentation and peer code reviews.

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership and operational oversight for a portfolio of enterprise applications.
  • Ensure application reliability, performance, monitoring, and continuous delivery across cloud-native and microservices platforms.
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines and utilize observability tools like Dynatrace, Elastic Search, and Grafana.
  • Define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for production outages.
  • Develop runbooks, operational documentation, and recovery procedures for distributed infrastructure.
  • Design and develop software solutions to address complex business needs.
  • Review coding, testing, and technical documentation produced by the team.

What we're looking for

  • A bachelor's degree or a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience is required.
  • Candidates must have at least 3 years of relevant or direct industry experience.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, application support, observability, and enterprise monitoring tools is required.
  • Proficiency in ServiceNow and technology monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Elastic Search, and Grafana is required.
  • Experience with distributed infrastructure, storage technologies, coding, and databases is required.
  • Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles is required.
  • Ability to lead technical design, development, and troubleshooting for complex software solutions is required.

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