Principal Software Engineer

Who We Are 

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com. 

The Role: 

The Principal Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and platforms that enable scalable, reliable, and high-performance data processing. This role involves developing end-to-end data solutions using cutting-edge technologies while ensuring efficient ETL/ELT workflows to support analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making. The engineer will analyze complex data requirements, model data structures, and implement data integration solutions across diverse systems. Strong expertise in Streaming, performance tuning, and big data frameworks is essential, along with the ability to document, automate, and operationalize data pipelines for production use. The position also requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams — including data analysts, data scientists, and application developers — to ensure data quality, consistency, and availability. The Lead Data Engineer is expected to apply best practices in data engineering, cloud optimization, and governance, contributing to the continuous improvement and modernization of the data ecosystem.  

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: 

• Translates business requirements to conceptual solution architecture and high-level project estimates. 

• Develops, modifies, and implements Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted applications according to business requirements using.

• Logical data modeling, database definition and manipulation, and data synchronization 

• Object oriented design, coding, performance tuning, and unit testing 

• Research, extraction and analysis of complex data 

• Authors and reviews technical requirements to ensure compliance with business requirements 

• Performs proper unit testing and software code writing (including automated unit testing) 

• Familiar with appropriate standards and techniques used during the Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC, security) and applies them appropriately 

• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software 

• Participates in peer code reviews and develops skill level of others through mentorship 

• May work on multiple tasks/projects simultaneously with various team members and/or other groups both internally and externally  

• Engages effectively in self-directed time management and prioritization of workload  

• Perform such other duties as may be assigned by management 

• Essential to be available to work during Omnitracs corporate business hours 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master's preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering roles
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership position
• Utilizing Real-Time, Batch, and NoSQL/SQL technologies.
• Proficiency in data warehousing, data modelling, ETL design, and optimization
• Deep understanding of data enrichment, transformation, security, movement, data architecture, golden record, and data integrity.
• Experience with the big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Trino, Hive, Iceberg)
• Experience with any data orchestration tools (Airflow, Luigi, etc.).
• Familiarity with AWS migration services like Database Migration Service (DMS) and Server Migration Service (SMS).

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Java
• Big Data Technologies: Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, Trino
• Any Cloud Platforms(AWS preferred):
  • AWS (S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue)
  • Azure (Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks)
  • GCP (Big Query, Dataflow, Dataproc)
• Data Warehousing: Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Fabric Data Warehouse
• Any ETL/ELT Tools: Airflow, dbt, Informatica, Talend, Glue
• Databases:
  • Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle
  • NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB
  • Time-series: Influx DB, Timescale DB
• Container & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Version Control: Git, GitLab/GitHub workflows
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Grafana

Data Architecture Skills

• Data modeling (dimensional, relational, NoSQL)
• Database design and optimization
• Batch and real-time pipeline architecture
• Data mesh/data fabric architectures
• Data lake and Lakehouse implementation
• Understanding of API design and development and Microservices architecture is a plus