• The Lead Application Development Engineer will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of critical applications. • Foster collaboration among team members, stakeholders, and departments. • Define backend frameworks and engineering standards across applications. • Establish cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS preferred). • Architect for scalability, reliability, performance, and security. • Build systems designed for long-term scalability, not short-term patches. • Lead API architecture and integration design across platforms. • Design and implement a centralized data hub strategy to decouple applications from legacy systems. • Implement monitoring and observability standards (New Relic or similar).