Principal Software Engineer/Developer

Position Description:

Innovates and improves enablement platforms and capabilities to accelerate the enterprise’s journey to the Cloud. Works with Azure and Azure Platform as a Service (PAAS) services and network platforms. Performs duties with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation Templates (CFT), Azure Resource Manager (Arm), Terraform, and BICEP).  Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participates in architecture design teams.
• Defines and implements application-level architecture.
• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
• Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
• Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and supporting Cloud native applications on AWS and Azure within a financial or telecom services environment. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and supporting Cloud native applications on AWS and Azure within a financial or telecom services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing Web, middleware, Cloud applications, and RESTful APIs within large-scale enterprise systems, targeting Windows, Linux platforms, and public Cloud services (Azure and AWS), using C#, ASP.NET, PowerShell, and SQL Server; architecting enterprise software applications and automation solutions, using Cloud application development tools -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS, and Serverless including Azure Functions and Logic Apps; and designing and developing databases targeting SQL and NoSQL databases -- SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure Cosmos.  
• DE designing and building DevOps pipelines to enable weekly software delivery and manage platform upgrades on Cloud native applications, using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, and Sonar; and performing software release management by automating builds, releasing documentation creation, versioning, tests, validations, and rollback, using xUnit, Specflow, Jenkins shared libraries, and Github CLI. 
• DE building and maintaining software architecture using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) technologies (Terraform, ARM, BICEP, and CFT); monitoring, telemetry, and alerting, using tools (Application Insights, Datadog, and ServiceNow) at enterprise platform scope; and building modularized IAC solutions using GitHub and Backstage for enterprise-wide consumption. 
• DE performing risk assessment and designing and implementing security controls using policies to ensure compliance, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and network isolation to improve governance and security posture, using Datadog, Cloudaware, Divvy, and Microsoft Entra ID.

Salary:  $140,149.00 - $166.000.00/year.

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