Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer role will provide hands on engineering and architecture support for complex Treasury systems at Comerica. These systems are primarily in-house developed applications, but this position may also include limited interaction with COTS and ASP solutions. This position will operate within a mature Scrum team with respect to all stages of the application and system lifecycle; design, build, implementation and occasional Level 3 support. This position will provide technical input to management decision making in the areas of software, hardware, and performance. Responsibilities include: defining networking requirements; performing detailed analysis of various projects and requests; developing designs for projects that have medium to high complexity; formulating procedures; mentoring and coaching developers; and implementing advanced business solutions. This role will focus on the following technologies: Java, React, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and AWS (both EC2 and Serverless configurations).

Position Responsibilities:
Design and Methodology

• Work closely with business units, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements.
• Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business. Propose changes to the technical architecture and design solutions as applicable.
• Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across infrastructure platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies.
• Understand, participate, review and influence long term capacity planning and technology investments.

Technical Consulting

• Provide Client consulting and planning guidance as applicable for moderate to large highly complex projects/programs.
• Provide consultation and works closely with other functional infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational / business goals and objectives.
• Participate in and provides consulting to project teams on architectural, design development, integration opportunities, planning of highly complex systems and assures it is aligned to our established strategies, guiding principles, rationales and practices.

Planning and Organizing

• Identify and evaluate projects/programs/initiatives and design processes that enhance and rationalize existing and upcoming solutions.
• Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives.
• Review, identify and manage requirements for moderate to complex solutions and do a cost value, feasibility and risk analysis.

Risk Management

• Review, participate, develop and update architectural standards, guiding principles, rationales and strategies.
• Evaluate, review and approve highly complex design solutions for business and Infrastructure project or programs or initiatives.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technology related field, OR equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience, OR 12 years of technology experience
• 7 years of experience in identifying technical solutions for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions and providing recommendations
• 6 years of Technology experience in one or more the following technologies:
  • Core Java
  • J2EE
  • JavaScript
  • React Native
  • AWS Technologies (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• 5 years of experience mentoring another technologist
• Technology experience preferred in one or more the following frameworks: Spring (core and boot) Angular, or jQuery
• Technology experience preferred in one or more the following tools: Jira, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Ansible, Terraform, or Docker
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.