Vice President, Full Stack Engineer

Hybrid 4 days onsite in Pittsburgh, PA

We are seeking a Principal Level Java Full Stack Developer to own the end-to-end development and maintenance of critical applications that power our client's businesses. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with delivery execution, platform resiliency, team development, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who thrives in complex, regulated environments and can drive modern engineering practices to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable software.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end software delivery across requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release support for multiple applications and services.
• Own platform resiliency through vulnerability management, compliance to enterprise resiliency initiatives, root-cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement.
• Modernize and maintain applications by reducing technical debt, improving code coverage, managing dependency hygiene, and executing structured refactoring plans.
• Champion secure SDLC by ensuring code quality, security scanning and remediation, secure configurations, and compliance in partnership with security and risk teams.
• Drive DevOps excellence by automating CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, and release management with robust rollback strategies.
• Architect for scale and resilience, including modular architectures, APIs and microservices, caching strategies, data integrations, and performance tuning.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with product owners, operations, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partner teams to prioritize and deliver outcomes.
• Mentor and grow engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, career coaching, and cultivation of a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture.
• Govern change and risk by leading change advisory processes, managing regulatory and controls expectations, and maintaining audit-ready documentation and evidence.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant responsibility for production systems.
• Proven experience owning both build and run for business-critical applications.
• Strong full-stack background with Java and modern front-end frameworks such as Angular. Experience with Node.js/TypeScript or Python is beneficial.
• Experience with API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, data integration, and messaging such as Kafka or MQ.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerization such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes or Docker, or private cloud equivalents.
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling, testing strategies including unit, integration, and performance, observability across logs, metrics, and traces, and feature flagging.
• Solid understanding of application security, secrets management, IAM, and vulnerability management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Nice-to-have: exposure to AI/ML-enabled features, data pipelines, or analytics platforms.
• Nice-to-have: data warehousing with Snowflake, orchestration with Airflow, and modular analytics pipelines with dbt including CI/CD, testing, and documentation.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with regulated financial environments and control frameworks.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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