Software Development Engineer (Lead)

0101 The Huntington National Bank; United States; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Huntington National Bank in the United States is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and support cloud-native data ingestion, processing, and enterprise data platforms across batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures.

The role provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and leads design reviews to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions aligned with enterprise standards. Office-based with flexible work arrangements and a focus on collaboration.

Job description

Lead Software Development Engineer

Job Profile Summary

The Lead Software Development Engineer provides technical and consultative support on highly complex technology initiatives. This role designs, develops, and supports cloud-native data ingestion, data processing, and enterprise data platform solutions leveraging batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures. The individual serves as a senior technical contributor, helping evaluate and implement technology solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, develops, and supports enterprise applications and platform services.
• Evaluates architectural approaches and recommends appropriate technologies based on business requirements, cost, scalability, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Develops cloud-native solutions using APIs, event-driven patterns, and distributed systems principles.
• Provides technical leadership and guidance during design reviews and implementation activities.
• Troubleshoots complex production issues and drives root cause analysis and remediation.
• Maintains knowledge of industry trends, cloud technologies, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Mentors less experienced engineers and serve as technical lead, leading by example on projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering experience.
• Experience developing enterprise applications using Java and/or Python.
• Experience building and operating enterprise data platforms for high-volume batch and streaming workloads.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed systems and APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with data platforms leveraging Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Bigtable, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Spark.
• Strong understanding of API, messaging, event-driven, and microservices architectures.
• Experience evaluating technology tradeoffs and selecting appropriate solutions for business and technical requirements.
• Experience with Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Apigee, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Python, Java Scala, SQL Dataflow, BigQuery, BigTable, Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), Apache Spark GCP Spring Boot, REST APIs, Pub/Sub Data Ingestion Frameworks CI/CD and Automation Observability and Monitoring

Key differentiator

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and choose between cloud services, APIs, messaging platforms, event-driven solutions, and data processing technologies based on scalability, reliability, operational supportability, security, and cost considerations.

Exempt Status

• (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay) Yes

Workplace Type

• Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range

• 70,000.00 - 140,000.00 USD Annual

The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position.

Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education.

Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.

Benefits

• In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Welcome to Huntington!

At Huntington, we look out for people. From reinventing banking with game-changing innovations to building an internal culture that creates lifelong bonds, together, we can make people’s lives better. And amazing things happen when we look out for each other. We prove it every day. Whether it’s helping a colleague or collaborating on a new tool that will revolutionize the way people save money, our actions can have a huge impact. Our colleagues look out for people with a Can-Do Attitude, Service Heart and Forward Thinking. Those are our values—simple but powerful. Each of them pushes us do the right thing, to do right by people. Because people are what matter. If that sounds like you, we hope you’ll apply to join our team. If you’d like to learn more about how Huntington looks out for people, visit https://www.huntington.com/lookingout We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of this site or if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform the essential functions of the job, please send an email to [e-mail]

Reasonable Accommodations

Various methods will be used throughout the recruitment process to verify candidate authenticity. Any interviews conducted virtually must be joined from a distraction-free environment, with the candidate on camera and without the use of virtual backgrounds.