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Salary: USD 126,000 - 197,000 / annual
Addepar is a global data and AI platform that empowers investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. The company unifies portfolio, market, and client data to deliver AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets.
We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to drive the development and optimization of automation solutions that enhance developer productivity, improve software quality, and reduce technical debt. This role focuses on implementing scalable frameworks and enabling teams to achieve operational excellence through technical innovation.
Key responsibilities include:
**Technical Leadership and Innovation:** Develop and maintain scalable automation frameworks and tools. Lead technical efforts to support both developer enablement and quality assurance needs. Provide expertise in designing and optimizing automation systems for maintainability, scalability, and performance.
**Developer Enablement:** Build and deploy automation solutions that streamline the software development lifecycle, including tools for test data generation, environment setup, and deployment pipelines. Integrate automation into CI/CD workflows to deliver rapid feedback and seamless deployments. Drive adoption of developer-first tools to minimize friction and accelerate development processes. Implement and manage centralized software catalogs to improve discoverability, compliance, and reuse of automation tools and services.
**Technical Debt Reduction and Modernization:** Identify and address technical debt in automation frameworks and infrastructure. Modernize legacy systems and align them with modern tools and methodologies. Evaluate emerging technologies to continuously improve developer and quality enablement capabilities.
**Quality Assurance and Metrics:** Implement robust test automation strategies to ensure reliable and consistent quality across releases. Ensure comprehensive testing coverage, focusing on functional, integration, and end-to-end tests with emphasis on SOA and microservices. Track and improve delivery performance metrics, such as DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery).
**Collaboration and Cross-Team Alignment:** Partner with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to align automation strategies with organizational goals. Collaborate on service integration testing, contract testing, and system-level quality initiatives. Advocate for best practices and provide technical leadership in automation priorities across teams.
You bring expertise in designing and implementing automation frameworks, strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript with emphasis on maintainable and scalable code, and hands-on experience with test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development practices.
