Senior Lead, Software Engineer

Overview

Who we are

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Who we're looking for

Toyota Financial Services' Enterprise Tools Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Senior Lead, Software Engineer. The primary responsibility of this role is to help build world-class platform engineering capabilities for our development teams, with a strong focus on CI/CD pipelines and testing tools automation. In this role, you'll shape technology strategy, deliver scalable automation solutions, and improve the overall developer and employee experience through innovative, self-service platforms. The ideal candidate comes with hands-on experience designing and building an enterprise-wide test automation platform(s).

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you'll help create the tools, platforms, and automation that make it easier for engineering teams to build, test, and deliver high-quality software at scale. 

Technology Strategy and Execution:

• Implement a strategic roadmap for technology initiatives within the CI/CD pipelines & Testing Tools Automation Platform Domains

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technology solutions that enhance employee experience

• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve and innovate our technology offerings

Self-Service and Automation:

• Drive initiatives to enable self-service capabilities and automation across all supported technology areas

• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual efforts, and increase efficiency through automation

• Champion the adoption of self-service tools and platforms to empower employees to resolve issues independently

What you bring

• Significant experience where you've designed, developed, and maintained cloud-native platforms and services using AWS or other major cloud providers

• Strong proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Bash or Groovy to automation and customization of CI/CD workflows

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for automation, ensuring platforms are developed with TDD principles by writing tests before implementing feature

• Strong knowledge of multiple Test Automation Frameworks, tools, test reporting and analytics, with the ability to support quality at scale

• Deep understanding of diverse testing approaches, including AI Testing, UI Automation, Performance Testing and leveraging these in end-to-end test automation

• Experience with test parallelization and optimization techniques

• Hands-on experience with Mastery of CI/CD tools such as Harness, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, including configuration, customization, and integration capabilities

• Practical experience with Amazon Web Services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, S3, and ELB

Added bonus if you have

• Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and AWS CodeDeploy for provisioning and managing CI/CD infrastructure

• Experience in seamlessly integrating containerization into CI/CD pipelines, including Docker image building, registry management, and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, including cluster setup, configuration, and management

• Experience in automation of provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention

• Experience in building internal developer platforms or tools ecosystems

• Knowledge of modern web frameworks (Next.js, React, Vue)

What we’ll bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement

• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family

• Flextime and virtual work options (if applicable)

• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute

• Paid holidays and paid time off

• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more

• Tax Advantage Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA

• Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com.