Columbia Sportswear Company connects active people with their passions and is a global multi-brand leader in outdoor, active, and lifestyle products, including apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment. Founded in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, the company's brands are sold in 122 countries. Alongside its flagship Columbia brand, the company owns Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna — together spanning hiking, trail running, snow sports, fishing, hunting, mountaineering, yoga, climbing, and everyday outdoor lifestyle apparel and footwear. With a strong global presence across wholesale, direct-to-consumer, and e-commerce channels, Columbia Sportswear Company India Sourcing Pvt Ltd plays a key role in supporting the organization's sourcing and supply chain operations worldwide.
ABOUT THE POSITION
A Senior Software Engineer designs, builds and maintains integrations and APIs that connect disparate systems. This includes on-premises legacy applications, third-party SaaS platforms, or cloud-native microservices. Ensures solutions are developed and delivered with quality, simplicity, reliability, and maintainability. Designs modern, testable, secure solutions in a fast-moving environment. Maintains high standards of code quality and solution delivery.
YOU ARE
- Integration Development:
- Build robust REST APIs and middleware using C# and .NET 8/10 (Web API, Minimal APIs).
- Build end-to-end integration workflows using Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) like Message Queuing, Publish/Subscribe, and Request/Response.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Provision and manage Azure resources via Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates.
- Data Transformation: Implement complex data mapping and transformation logic (JSON, XML, Flat File) to ensure seamless communication between systems.
- Observability: Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies using Grafana and Application Insights.
- Teamwork: Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
- Agile Delivery: Deliver solutions in an iterative manner with ambiguous requirements. Contributes to and helps refine the team’s backlog.
- Testing: Implements robust unit testing suites that reduce production bugs and streamline the CI/CD pipeline.
YOU HAVE
- Languages & Frameworks: C#, Blazor, .NET 8/10, ASP.NET Core, IIS, GitHub Copilot
- Azure Integration Services: Azure Service Bus (Queues/Topics), Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions (Serverless), API Management (APIM).
- Data & Storage: Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, Key Vault
- DevOps & CI/CD: Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Standards and Practices: REST APIs, Clean Code, Agile Delivery
- Unit Testing: MSTest, XUnit, or NUnit
Soft Skills
- Superior communication skills
- Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams, and manage partner expectations
- Willingness to work modified hours
- Expertise in remote asynchronous collaboration
- Excellent project and time management skills
Key Competencies
- Distributed System Troubleshooting: The ability to trace a failed message across multiple cloud hosted resources and identify bottlenecks or dead-letter causes.
- Performance Optimization: Tuning .NET code for high-throughput and managing Azure scaling rules to balance performance with cost.
- Resiliency Patterns: Developing fault-tolerant, decoupled systems by implementing robust patterns like Circuit Breakers, automated retries, and Dead Letter Queues.
Experience & Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience:
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused specifically on Azure-based integrations and C#.
- 3+ years agile delivery experience and familiarity with Jira, SCRUM and Kanban.
- 5+ years of remote collaboration experience across time zones.
- Exposure to wholesale and/or retail solutions preferred
- Experience in design and development of an Enterprise CI/CD process
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification, or equivalent experience
- Typically 8+ years of professional experience with mastery of relevant technical or business skills
- 5+ years designing Big Data systems and processes in a cloud environment
- Expertise in SQL and query optimization techniques
- 5+ years of experience with programming languages
- 3+ years of Apache Spark with Python experience
- Experience designing and developing enterprise CI/CD processes
- Expertise in Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and SQL Database technologies
- Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language
- Azure stack experience, including Logic Apps and Function Apps
- Knowledge of SQL database systems
- Experience automating repeatable tasks
- Strong understanding of data design concepts
- Knowledge of software development life cycle and change management
- Ability to create logical flow diagrams
- Project and time management skills
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage partner expectations
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to evaluate processes and drive improvement
- Ability to develop ideas and make decisions regarding complex issues
- Functional understanding of data architecture concepts
- Intermediate understanding of privacy laws and regulations
- Exposure to wholesale or retail solutions
- Experience with data catalogs, business glossaries, data governance, and metadata management
- Experience defining and implementing data governance models based on industry best practices
Columbia Sportswear Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Columbia Sportswear Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Columbia Sportswear Company.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental-health support. The overall package is often framed as a strong pillar of the total rewards offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a meaningful component of the package, including a 401(k) with company matching and references to profit-sharing or related retirement programs. This retirement support is repeatedly presented as a core benefit that adds stability to total compensation.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle-oriented perks stand out, including a strong product discount, fitness/wellness support, commuter benefits, and paid volunteer time. These perks are frequently treated as material offsets to base-pay perceptions in certain roles.
Columbia Sportswear Company Insights
What We Do
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard. Our apparel, footwear, and accessories reflect our Pacific Northwest heritage and indomitable spirit.
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