A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to join their team in the McLean, Virginia area.

Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms (IDPs) that standardize and simplify development workflows (e.g., Backstage, Cortex)
- Integrate and champion AI-powered developer tools, including AI-assisted code generation, intelligent code review, and automated documentation
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI development tools and APIs into engineering workflows
- Establish and promote best practices for Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, and cloud-native deployments
- Reduce developer cognitive load by abstracting infrastructure complexity and enabling self-service capabilities
- Drive self-service solutions that allow engineers to provision, test, and deploy safely and autonomously
- Optimize feedback loops with product teams to enable rapid iteration and higher-quality releases
- Measure and improve developer productivity metrics (DORA, SPACE) and use insights to drive continuous improvement
- Lead developer education and enablement initiatives, including demos, presentations, and feature certifications.
- Evaluate and implement security, compliance, and observability best practices in developer toolchains
- Ensure secure, responsible use of AI tooling aligned with organizational AI governance
- Perform other duties, as needed
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in platform engineering, DevEx, or DevOps roles
- Deep experience with cloud-native development (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Kubernetes) and CI/CD.
- Strong expertise integrating and using AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI APIs, AI-based testing)
- Solid understanding of software delivery metrics (DORA, SPACE) and improvement methodologies
- Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python, etc.) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
- Experience building and operating developer platforms or DX functions and influencing technical direction
- Extensive Azure experience, including Azure DevOps, Azure SQL, Azure NoSQL, APIs, Event Hub, Stream Analytics, Storage, and Log Analytics
- Working knowledge of observability and logging platforms (Elastic/ELK, Logz.io, Splunk)
- Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, YAML)
- Experience configuring cloud monitoring and telemetry (Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics/KQL)
- Exposure to AWS services (EC2, S3, EMR) and cloud data migration
Desired Skills:
- Experience supporting multi-team engineering environments with a focus on developer enablement
- Familiarity with Team Topologies and cognitive load reduction strategies
- Hands-on experience integrating observability and monitoring into developer-facing platforms
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices
- Knowledge of secure software supply chain practices (SBOMs, artifact signing)
- Experience with BI tools and dashboards (Tableau, Business Objects)
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban)
