Job Description:

• Being a member of the Information Technology group the Principal Software Engineer coordinates the technical design of large business systems; integration of business services & information security; implements technology-specific best practices & standards; controls success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; provides leadership on teams and can assist the Domain Architect as a technology liaison across teams.
• Acts as a partner with multi-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Technology Selection – assists in technology selection decisions; leads technology risk for the project team
• Perform business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and solutions addressing the business problems
• Platforms – works with Infrastructure partners to stand up development, testing, and production environments. Will define scalability and performance criteria for the product
• Environments – work with Infrastructure partners to choose efficient hosting environment
• Requirements Elaboration – works with the Functional Architect to ensure that non-functional requirements are complete and appropriate
• Data Modeling – ensures physical data model supports the performance, privacy and security requirements
• Designs Frameworks – that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and extendibility
• System Performance – proposes solutions that satisfy performance requirements; ensures test strategy validates performance requirements; tunes application performance issues
• Security – understands corporate info. security standards; ensures test plans validate security requirements
• Standards – recommends and promotes technical solutions that are consistent with corporate standards
• Documentation – develops and maintains system documentation
• Is familiar with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban) and leads team in process best practices of chosen methodology
• Helps to develop solutions that balance cost, schedule, and requirements
• Helps roll out standards and policies to other team members
• Supports team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time
• Engages in activities to support the broader organization
• Incorporates business and financial factors into decision making and supports team members in doing the same
• Ensures own and team’s practices support success across all geographic locations
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications:

• 9 years’ experience in application development (Java) and system analysis; thorough understanding of the middleware and message protocols
• 2 years technical team leadership experience
• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline or related field