Job Description:

Who is Equifax? 

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. 

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

The Perks of being an Equifax Employee?

• We offer excellent compensation packages with market competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.


• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax.

What You’ll Do

The Technical Lead will be responsible for researching and evaluating new technologies and guiding the technical efforts of the team to leverage them as they apply to solving our business unit objectives. The Lead will be responsible for ensuring that the best technical approach and practices are applied in all phases of the application lifecycle as it pertains to these newer technologies as well. This person will leverage rapid prototyping techniques to try and demonstrate these new technologies to both the business and technical teams.  This will include:

• Research & Development (Understand emerging technologies, present and recommend technologies to address business needs, scalability, performance, technical debt, etc., prototype newer technologies in a sandbox environment)


• Application Development: Perform application technical design, write efficient and maintainable code.



• Oversight of Application Quality: Lead the team to integrate test driven development and automated quality assurance testing




• Technical Guidance/Support for team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, software engineering or computer science and 6-9 years of technical experience in software design and product support 


• Intermediate to advanced level of experience in utilizing Agile Scrum or Kanban for software development



• Experience guiding global teams on the technical design and implementation of Analytical platforms in GCP using cloud native technology stack.




• Experience with SQL, Python, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Tableau or other business intelligence tools




• Experience with streaming frameworks, e.g. Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka




• Experience with REST API services using Java




• Experience with deploying high availability, high performance, multi-regional, multi-data center cloud  applications




• Strong skills with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git, Bamboo, Ansible, HELM charts etc

Extra Points for any of the Following

• Experience working with cross-functional product teams




• Proven track record build complex and highly scalable systems from ground up




• Strong understanding of data warehouse and application from design to deployment




• Experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and cross-functional teams  (Product Owners, Product Architects, Developers, Test Engineers)

Success Attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?

• Accountability


• Bravery


• Curiosity


• Collaboration


• Think and act differently


• Trust


• Ownership


• Decide-Execute-Ship

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

                                                                                                                                     

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don’t delay, apply today - we’re looking for you!

                                                                                                                                                       

        

Primary Location:

USA-St. Louis-Lackland

Function:

Function - Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule:

Full time

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