Principal System Engineer

Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.

• Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions, while fully understanding system inter-dependencies and limitations. Evaluate system options, risk, cost versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals. Make buy vs. build recommendations within enterprise architecture standards and guidance.
• Identify best sources of data and data integration solutions, working with data architects to ensure optimal software design and architecture.
• Lead or participate in the technical evaluation of vendor services and platforms, and ongoing management of implemented vendor solutions.
• Deliver Solutions :

Lead application technical component design and development. Develop technical specifications, reusable components and / or frameworks for application teams utilizing common and domain specific design patterns where appropriate.

• Serve as technical subject matter expert for development of new code or education on reusable components and services. Participate in hands-on development and help resolve complex issues and incidents.
• Drive Solution Quality :

Define solution quality standards and procedures. Lead software inspections and quality reviews. Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development and integration.

• Contribute to enterprise application architecture processes, principles, policies, and standards definition.
• Team Development :

Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.

• Provides technical team leadership, coaching, and mentoring to senior and junior team members to increase core systems knowledge, coding standards and development best practices.
• Requirements and Planning.

Reviews and provides input to the requirements for the implementation of business solutions.

• Participates in the planning process for near-term project / agile delivery and the future roadmap / direction of business and technology product domains.
• Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.

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• Bachelor's degree in related technical / business areas and ten years of systems analysis and programming experience in software architecture and / or application development and support work; or equivalent work experience.

May substitute a higher level of degree in related technical / business area and less work experience.

• A broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and software architecture standards.
• Advanced levels of programming techniques and knowledge of distributed system architectures, and object-oriented design.
• Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.