Lead Engineer

ChampionX is seeking a Lead Engineer in The Woodlands or Sugar Land, TX. The Lead Engineer will work closely with product managers and digital team members to understand the requirements and develop technical solutions, architectures, frameworks, and strategies to meet the business needs. Willing to learn new technologies and provide guidance to the team and stay on top of newer frameworks and adopt the technologies in quick time.

What's In It for You:

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is dedicated to improving lives and passionate about growth.
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best.
• Thrive in a company that values sustainability, drives a safety-focused culture and empowers through continuous improvement.
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching and more!

What You Will Do:

• Manage and support the day-to-day digital product managements activities of enterprise platforms and digital projects deliverables.
• Work with creative teams to develop innovative technology-enabled ideas, support problem identification, escalation and resolution process for technical issues with platforms and environments.
• Document and maintain architecture standards and best practices and help mentoring these findings to the team.
• Manage and drive cloud compute needs including creation and maintain of various resources on cloud.
• Acts as a mentor with team members to define best practices in application architecture. Work within project constraints, communicating any identified project risks and issues to the delivery/product teams accordingly.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or math with a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, C#, Java, JSON or Python.
• Good knowledge and multi-year hands-on experience of Microsoft Azure Platform.
• Hands-on programming skills with C#, NET, SQL Server, NoSQL database like MongoDB or any time series databases.
• Strong working knowledge of designing and implementing system interfaces using REST API including knowledge of XML/JSON, and HTML/CSS.
• Experience working with AI/ML model and integration with software platforms.
• Experience with IPA/RPA processes like UiPath, Automation Anywhere and different chatbot integrations.
• Experience with analytics UI/UX, Grafana or similar tools.
• Experience with docker containers.
• Good knowledge on PowerShell scripting.
• Experience with IoT protocols and frameworks like MQTT, AMQP, etc.
• Experience with Message Queues like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Hands on experience on Angular or ReactJS.
• Hands on experience on RDBMS like SQLServer, Oracle.
• Hands on DevOps.
• Desire and ability to work closely with developers and engineers in a team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willing and motivated to learn new domains, skills, and technologies.

Experience in the following is a plus:

• Prior experience managing IIoT commercial software platform.
• Experience in Oil and Gas business domain.
• Experience with IoT software security, SecDevOps and security software.

About ChampionX:

ChampionX is a global leader in providing chemistry programs and services, drilling technology, artificial lift solutions, and automation technologies for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Our world-class safety culture fuels our purpose to improve lives through our commitment to deliver sustainable operations.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At ChampionX, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every employee can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.