Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Centurion is seeking an accomplished Lead Software Engineer with strong architectural and development expertise to drive the design and implementation of enterprise integration, orchestration, and event-driven architecture solutions in AWS.

This role goes beyond technical leadership : the successful candidate will play a central role in requirement discovery and analysis, ensuring that business needs are accurately captured and translated into scalable solutions. They will demonstrate skill in managing stakeholder expectations, balancing priorities, and resolving challenges commonly encountered during technical discovery. Working closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams, this role will deliver scalable, reliable, and future-ready integration platforms that support ACS’s mission to advance scientific knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement discovery and analysis by engaging with business units and stakeholders to identify, clarify, and document integration and orchestration requirements, translating business and operational needs into actionable technical specifications, while also managing stakeholder expectations by setting realistic delivery goals, aligning trade-offs between business priorities and technical feasibility, and acting as a trusted advisor and technical liaison by presenting solutions to leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of an enterprise integration and orchestration solution that ensure seamless data and process flow between diverse systems, applying enterprise integration and orchestration patterns such as publish / subscribe, event sourcing, saga, request / reply, batch processing, hub-and-spoke, point-to-point, and community topic-based models, and designing and delivering orchestration solutions that automate workflows across multiple platforms.
• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of an enterprise API management solution by overseeing the full lifecycle including design, publication, versioning, access control, security, and monitoring, while ensuring the consistency, scalability, and interoperability of APIs such as REST, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, SOAP, and webhooks, and establishing policies and best practices for API usage, security, and documentation across the organization.
• Build integration and orchestration solutions using AWS services such as EKS, MWAA, EventBridge, Step Functions, SNS / SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, Transfer Family, Glue, Kinesis, and DynamoDB Streams, while also designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions to track performance, detect issues, and provide actionable insights using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, and related tools.
• Build and manage CI / CD pipelines using GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, or ArgoCD, applying containerization strategies, Infrastructure as Code, and security best practices with IAM policies, roles, and permissions, while working closely with DevOps teams to ensure reliable delivery and optimize cloud infrastructure.
• Drive collaboration with other involved technical teams, ensuring alignment of work across multiple groups, while also collaborating with business analysts, QA teams, and product managers to maintain integration consistency, and mentoring engineering teams to establish best practices in integration and orchestration.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering best practices in integration, orchestration, and cloud engineering, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Preferred Certifications and Education Background

Position Details

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