Principal Developer - IT

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The role of Principal Developer will have technical focus on enabling Passenger Security platform for Customer travel. The role will lead the efforts to design, develop, and maintain innovative solutions and collaborate with different portfolio owners and service providers. The Principal Developer plays a critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and critical thinking skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues, opportunities, or problems in order to maximize the benefit of IT and Business investments.

The Principal Developer is experienced and has decision-making authority. The Principal Developer is self-sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches others. The Principal Developer has extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business areas.

• Defines and implements the technical solutions for a new or to enhance existing system to modern technologies
• Defines technical service level agreements (SLAs) and data sharing strategies with vendors.
• Leads the design, development, and planning for solutions and technology standards to solve complex business problems.
• Hands-on development, Support and fix software systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions.
• Ensures that systems are properly integrated.
• Works with business, support, or development teams recommending system enhancements.
• Serves as a resource for technology/project development review and technical assessments.
• Ensures that the technical solutions meet the customers’ business goals.
• Provide consultation and technical leadership in project life cycle planning.
• Ensures consistency and coherence to the enterprise standards and guiding principles throughout the application lifecycle.
• Sees opportunities to leverage/influence the direction for existing infrastructure and application components.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends through benchmarking, participation in professional associations etc. to advise others of strategic technology direction.
• Provides feedback to the enterprise technology owners and Architects regarding future solution needs.
• Understands and applies the enterprise vision and strategy to the project solution while balancing tactical needs to deliver.
• Partner with various business and IT collaborators in defining domain architecture strategy.
• Demonstrate mastery of the application of development domain areas and multiple technologies and tool set
• Demonstrate mastery of software engineer
• Accountability for PCI/SOX environments and development

What is needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, other related field
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in application design, development, SDLC lifecycle (experience with Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, and other open-source technologies)
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with full stack Java development
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (such as, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, VPC, Cloud Trail, Cloud Front, Lambda, EKS, and/or ECS).
• Building scalable, highly available and resilient solutions
• Platform development and modernization of legacy services for cloud migration
• Relational databases (MySQL, Oracle etc.) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB etc.)
• Develop and support enterprise messaging like IBM MQ, Solace etc.
• Experience with tools such as Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, Data Dog, ELK Stack, Google Analytics etc
• Experience working with high-performance teams in an agile development environment where continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are critical.
• Demonstrate knowledge of software engineering best practices such as…