Principal Engineer - JavaAWS

Prinicpal Engineer Java/AWS

Overall Purpose

This position is a handson individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuing excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. Responsible for partnering with cross functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.

Essential Functions:

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy create product descriptions and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues industry trends and developing technologies.
• Be a role model to others on the team. Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for smalltomedium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making our client’s products better.
• Partners with software engineering product and architecture to shape engineering approaches share knowledge and experience.
• Develop scope and shape a departmentalwide technical vision for the future.
• Collaborate and build relationships crossfunctionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive strategic and successful change management.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Proven record in designing and delivering scalable highly available high transaction systems.
• Ten or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects.
• Experience in leading crossfunctional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices software development methodologies (Agile Scrum LEAN etc) and DevOps practices
• Proven track record designing and building complex endtoend systems (full stack developer)
• Handson experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies:
  • Java RESTful Web Services (Java J2EE JUnit and Tomcat.)
  • Experience in Microservices Architecture.
  • Open Source Frameworks Spring boot Spring Core
  • Messaging frameworks such as Kafka Tibco EMS or JMS
  • Relational and NoSQL databases
  • JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery AngularJS)
• Handson experience in test automation at various levels of testing (unit component integration and functional tests).
• Proven experience in OOA/OOD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT ChefMaven Jenkins etc
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git SVN) bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Background and drug screen.

• Experience in migrating systems from onpremises to native cloud architecture.
• Solid understanding of Cloud design preferably on AWS

• Working conditions consist of a normal office environment.
• Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours.
• Work may require occasional standing walking kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently.
• Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view prepare and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

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