Principal Software Engineer - AWS

Overall Purpose

This position is a hands‑on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuring 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.

• 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 small‑to‑medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental‑wide technical vision for the future.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing) keeping futuristic business growth, ease of maintenance, operational readiness and self‑service enabled.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross‑functionally 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.
• This job description is a summary of job responsibilities and is not intended to be an all‑inclusive list. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform tasks and other duties as assigned by their supervisor.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in Fin Tech domain.
• 1‑2 years of experience implementing application solutions/services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• Experience in leading cross‑functional 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 Dev Ops practices.
• Proven track record designing and building complex end‑to‑end systems (full‑stack developer).
• Hands‑on 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
  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Hands‑on 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, Chef, Maven, Jenkins etc.
• Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure.
• 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.

• M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
• Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris & Zabbix
• Hands‑on Experience in working with AWS
• Experience with various Database design and architectures
• Expertise in Terra Form and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like App Dynamics
• Experien…