Summary
Mark Josef is a Staff Architect based in Buffalo, NY with over 16 years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across Ruby and Scala stacks. He specializes in architecting resilient systems for financial transaction enrichment and complex ETL pipelines, comfortable working in both microservice landscapes and large monoliths as well as Big Data environments. At Jack Henry he progressed from senior engineering manager to senior staff engineer before taking an architect role at Wealth Access, evidencing a strong blend of people leadership and technical depth. He mentors engineers at all levels, coordinates multi-department initiatives, and has repeatedly translated ambiguous domain requirements into auditable, production-ready architectures. Mark’s academic background in computer science, mathematics, and linguistics informs a methodical yet communication-focused approach to solving complex data problems.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at University at Buffalo