Principal Engineer (Software - Microservices)

Required Technical Skill Set

• Programming/ Scripting language Java (8, 11,17),
• Python/ Kotlin / .Net
• JavaScript / FE frameworks

• Tools and frameworks SpringBoot 3+ / Dropwizard
• Rest-Assured (API) / SOAP
• Synk / Sonarlint
• Aws Lambda
• Kafka / MQ
• Postman/ SoapUI
• Maven 3+/Gradle 7+
• Junit(5)

• CI/CD & DevOps tools Azure DevOps
• Jenkins/ GoCD
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Git
• SonarQube/ any other repos

• Cloud platform, Monitoring and logging AWS
• Terraform
• Splunk/ Cloud Watch/ Kibana/ Prometheus / Elastic Search

• Databases SQL Oracle/ Postgres/ AWS DynamoDB

• Security OWASP
• ZAP
• Synk

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have

• Programming/ Scripting language Java (8, 11,17),
• Python/ Kotlin / .Net
• JavaScript / FE frameworks

• Tools and frameworks SpringBoot 3+ / Dropwizard
• Rest-Assured (API) / SOAP
• Synk / Sonarlint
• Aws Lambda
• Kafka / MQ
• Postman/ SoapUI
• Maven 3+/Gradle 7+
• Junit(5)

• CI/CD & DevOps tools Azure DevOps
• Jenkins/ GoCD
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Git
• SonarQube/ any other repos

• Cloud platform, Monitoring and logging AWS
• Terraform
• Splunk/ Cloud Watch/ Kibana/ Prometheus / Elastic Search

• Databases SQL Oracle/ Postgres/ AWS DynamoDB

• Security OWASP
• Synk
• ZAP

• Agile Ways of Working

Good-to-Have

Experience handling onsite and offshore team

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Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

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Job Profile Summary

Provide expert solutions to technical issues and ensure delivered solutions meet the technical specifications and design requirements across Agile Product teams.

Job Description

Key Outputs

• Provide technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration for product teams from definition phase through implementation.
• Provide direction and mentoring to other engineers and reviews work of development team.
• Responsible for incorporating industry trends and direction into the technical decision making for product roadmaps
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery enablement and maturity assessment.
• Provide guidance and oversight to multiple product teams working on different products or technologies to ensure that the technologies inter-operate or connect to each other appropriately.
• Accountable for the implementation of the strategy across product teams ensuring consistency of engineering frameworks, processes and tools.

Work Experience

• 8 to 10 years experience in (software engineering) in complex business environments. 15+ Years of Overall IT Experience
• Experience in the leading & mentoring of technical resources and ownership of technical
• outcomes for a product team.
• Experience using testing, continuous integration and delivery toolsets to ensure high quality
• and rapid software changes.
• Experience in working effectively and collaboratively across software product team disciplines
• and intra-team dependencies.

Education

• University degree in relevant area, (preferably computer science, engineering, information systems).

Certifications

• Formal professional, engineering or CAA certs required for the role e.g. Six Sigma Black Belt, formal coaching certificate

Skills

• Significant knowledge of Agile and/or Lean software development practices.
• A clear understanding of the software product cycle including build, packaging and release procedures into local, shared and production environments.
• General knowledge of software testing methods and test engineering toolsets that can be
• used to ensure quality of code deliverables.
• Strong problem-solving ability including the ability to design new solutions and to diagnose and solve software application issues in existing systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to work collaboratively with other (software / quality assurance) engineers, support analysts and other development team members.
• Able to maintain team motivation and productivity and consistently seek new and more optimised ways of delivering software.