Director, IT Data Engineering

Tegna Inc.
Greenbelt, United States of America
1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 187K

Job location

Remote
Greenbelt, United States of America

Tech stack

JavaScript
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Automation of Tests
Azure
Cloud Computing
Code Coverage
Code Review
Databases
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Programming Tools
Distributed Systems
Github
Python
Performance Tuning
Systems Development Life Cycle
Prometheus
Swagger
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Openapi
Datadog
Cyberark
React
Grafana
Technical Debt
GIT
Containerization
Front End Software Development
Api Design
Api Gateway
Terraform
Stream Processing
New Relic (SaaS)
Microservices

Job description

TEGNA is seeking a Senior Python Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale secure, resilient services and user-facing applications that power our content platform, APIs, digital products, and data-driven workflows. You will lead initiatives across a modular, cloud-native architecture supporting media asset management, editorial tooling, content curation, and personalized user experiences. This is a hands-on role with significant impact across backend services, modern frontend stacks, and the DevOps toolchain., * Architect, design, develop, and deploy Python microservices and APIs within an event-driven, cloud-native ecosystem.

  • Build and maintain user-facing applications using a modern JavaScript framework (e.g., React) integrated with Python backends
  • Lead technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and mentor engineers across onshore/offshore teams.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve documentation, and increase test coverage.
  • Collaborate with Product, DevOps, Security, Data/ML, and Architecture teams to deliver well-integrated, observable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Drive reliability and performance: implement robust monitoring, tracing, and alerting; identify and resolve bottlenecks; champion SLOs and error budgets.
  • Own quality end-to-end: write clean, well-tested code; design contract-first APIs; expand unit, integration, and contract tests; and implement test automation.
  • Reduce technical debt through proactive refactoring, decomposition, and platform standardization.
  • Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation.
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Requirements

  • 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience building backend services in Python and Azure/AWS.
  • Solid experience with microservices architecture, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native principles.
  • Proficiency with databases and datastores.
  • Experience with containerization, orchestration, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and terraform.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, idempotency, and resiliency patterns.
  • Frontend familiarity with React(or similar), TypeScript/JavaScript, component/state management, and modern build tooling.
  • Hands-on with Git, trunk/branching strategies, code reviews, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic) and performance tuning.
  • Experienced with automation and testing.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with a bias toward action and continuous improvement., * Experience with event streaming and messaging patterns.
  • API design best practices (OpenAPI/Swagger), API gateways, and rate limiting/authorization strategies.
  • Security-first mindset secure SDLC practices.
  • IaC experience and GitOps
  • Data and ML integration experience (batch/stream processing, feature stores) is a plus.
  • Familiarity with media/content platforms or high-traffic consumer digital products.

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