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Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.
How we support you:
- Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
- Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
- Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
- Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
- Learning and development programs
- Mentorship programs
- Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
- Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!
Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.
To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.
Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% remote and is based out of the Bloomington, IL; Sun Prairie, WI; Lakeville, MN; Mankato, MN office locations.
The contributions you will make: This positions is a senior engineer accountable for the design, reliability, modernization, and continuous improvement of complex enterprise network and telephony services. Leads cross-functional engineering initiatives, develops scalable patterns, resolves complex connectivity and communication issues, and advances campus, branch, data center, cloud, WAN, wireless, voice, unified communications, carrier, and automation capabilities. Mentors engineers and partners across technology, business, and vendor teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing services across the organization.
A typical day:
- Leads design and delivery of complex routing, switching, wireless, WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, telephony, unified communications, and carrier solutions across multiple locations and technology domains.
- Develops reusable engineering patterns for segmentation, resiliency, quality of service, secure access, call routing, observability, automation, configuration management, and lifecycle management.
- Leads platform upgrades, migrations, carrier transitions, circuit modernization, network refreshes, technology evaluations, consolidations, and retirement initiatives while balancing near-term needs with target-state direction.
- Leads resolution of high-impact network, wireless, voice, call-quality, carrier, and performance incidents; performs deep technical analysis and drives systemic corrective actions across service dependencies.
- Defines and improves service health measures, capacity baselines, telemetry, alerting, testing, failover validation, disaster-recovery readiness, and production-readiness practices for critical connectivity and communication services.
- Leads engineering reviews; mentors engineers; strengthens documentation and standards; and influences platform roadmaps, investment priorities, carrier and vendor decisions, service improvements, and lifecycle plans.
The skills and experience we prefer you have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, telecommunications, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Minimum 7 or more years of progressive experience in network engineering, telecommunications, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success designing and leading complex network and telephony solutions, modernization, migrations, resiliency improvements, automation, and lifecycle initiatives across multiple teams and locations.
- Advanced experience with routing, switching, wireless, WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, telephony, unified communications, carrier services, automation, monitoring, security controls, and incident or problem management.
- Valid driver's license required.
- Professional or expert level Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Arista, or comparable network and telecommunications certifications preferred.
- Experience with software-defined networking, cloud networking, network observability, infrastructure-as-code, or unified communications and contact-center technologies, preferred.
- Experience in a regulated financial-services environment or with audit, risk, and control requirements, preferred.
- Experience defining service-level objectives and indicators, network performance measures, capacity baselines, and availability reporting, preferred.
- Experience leading large-scale wireless, carrier, contact-center, or multi-site network modernization initiatives, preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise network and telephony engineering, including routing protocols, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, voice, call routing, quality of service, unified communications, and carrier services.
- Strong systems thinking and engineering judgment, with the ability to connect business needs, architecture, technical dependencies, service outcomes, risk, resilience, and cost.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work, create clarity in ambiguity, and resolve cross-platform issues across organizational and vendor boundaries.
- Advanced scripting, automation, configuration management, integration, version-control, testing, observability, and deployment skills.
- Strong technical leadership, facilitation, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to mentor engineers, establish practical standards and reusable patterns, and improve engineering capability without relying on formal authority.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, change management, operational resilience, disaster recovery, vendor and carrier management, and risk controls in a financial-services environment.
How we will take care of you:
Our job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.
Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
- At least 7 years of progressive experience in network engineering, telecommunications, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or a related field
- Experience designing and leading complex network and telephony solutions, modernization, migrations, resiliency improvements, automation, and lifecycle initiatives
- Advanced experience with routing, switching, wireless, WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, telephony, unified communications, carrier services, automation, monitoring, security controls, and incident or problem management
- Valid driver's license
- Professional or expert-level Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Arista, or comparable network and telecommunications certifications
- Experience with software-defined networking, cloud networking, network observability, infrastructure as code, unified communications, or contact-center technologies
- Experience in a regulated financial-services environment or with audit, risk, and control requirements
- Experience defining service-level objectives and indicators, network performance measures, capacity baselines, and availability reporting
- Experience leading large-scale wireless, carrier, contact-center, or multi-site network modernization initiatives
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise network and telephony engineering, including routing protocols, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, voice, call routing, quality of service, unified communications, and carrier services
- Advanced scripting, automation, configuration management, integration, version control, testing, observability, and deployment skills
- Knowledge of cybersecurity, change management, operational resilience, disaster recovery, vendor and carrier management, and risk controls
- Ability to lead complex technical work, resolve cross-platform issues, mentor engineers, establish standards, and influence without formal authority
What We Do
SmartStream is a recognised leader in financial transaction management solutions that enables firms to improve operational control, reduce costs, build new revenue streams, mitigate risk and comply accurately with regulations. By helping its customers through their transformative digital strategies, SmartStream provides a range of solutions for the transaction lifecycle with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies embedded - which can also be deployed in the cloud or as managed services. As a result, more than 2,000 clients—including 70 of the world’s top 100 banks, rely on SmartStream Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions to deliver greater efficiency to their operations.
