Principal Engineer - HR & FIN Tech
Job Description
A Principal Engineer is part of a key team of Nordstrom IT professionals that applies scientific, mathematical and social principles to design, build, and maintain technology products, devices, systems and solutions. This is a strategic position within the Engineering discipline, influencing the direction and technology decisions for discipline/practice. The scope, responsibility and accountability is at the solution level.
A day in the life...
- Apply advanced concepts, theories and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations
- Contribute to development of new principles and concepts
- Provide thought leadership across multiple organizations to ensure that systems and services are designed, and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability and sustainability
- Leads multidimensional projects that involve multiple teams
- Leads and works with other software engineers on design best practices and conducts code reviews
- Leads a team in keeping systems and code well-designed and well-documented
- Resolves complex engineering problems, collaborating with others
- Facilitates cross functional troubleshooting, root cause analysis and engages others when needed
- Responsible for creating, evaluating, and contributing to feature detailed designs from an organization level
- Design, develop, and implement software utilizing an agile project cycle that could incorporate a full team's worth of engineers
- Helps define business metrics for the team
- Owns team-level metrics and events
- Take responsibility for team-level costs
- Directs team's best practices for incident resolution
- Take ownership and participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, engagement with vendors and cross functional troubleshooting
- Mentor others across teams and raises the bar for technical knowledge across a wide spectrum
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge of information technology concepts issues, trends and best practices as they relate to Cloud technologies and system integrations
- Apply and share knowledge of security coding practices and secure system fundamentals in design considerations
You own this if you have...
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience (Java/Springboot/AWS)
- Strong understanding of design patterns and architecture
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and/or Docker
- Experience with RESTful architecture and micro-services
- Experience in developing near real-time data processing solutions utilizing Kafka
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies and tooling
- Experience leading/mentoring junior developers
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders to understand business goals and how to use technology to drive results
- Familiarity with relational databases
- Python is a plus
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
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We've got you covered...
Our employees are our most important asset and that's reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:
- Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
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