Overview

Tech Summary: The IT Applications Engineer V is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and supporting complex, enterprise-scale digital platforms and cloud-native solutions. This role requires deep expertise in modern architecture patterns, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, API-first design, and scalable cloud technologies to deliver highly available, secure, and resilient business capabilities. The engineer serves as a hands-on technical expert who partners with product, engineering, security, and business teams to define technical strategy, drive architecture decisions, and lead the implementation of innovative solutions across a complex technology landscape. The role is expected to solve challenging technical problems, troubleshoot critical production issues, and provide leadership in system design, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience with public cloud platforms, microservices architectures, containerization, orchestration technologies, CI/CD automation, observability, and modern software engineering practices. They must be capable of evaluating emerging technologies, establishing engineering standards, mentoring other engineers, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, scalability, and compliance requirements. This position requires a highly skilled engineer who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, influence technical direction across multiple teams, and deliver solutions that support both current business needs and long-term digital transformation objectives. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for translating business requirements and functional specifications into software solutions, for contributing to and leveraging the technical direction for the development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while providing consultation to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed. Essential Responsibilities: Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.Provides insight into recommendations for technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Busin