Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

What you'll do 

As a Senior Mainframe Developer at Principal Financial Group, you will have a crucial responsibility in maintaining the smooth functioning of our mainframe systems. Your tasks will involve identifying, diagnosing, and resolving medium to complex system problems reported by our business partners. By consulting system documents, you will prioritize these problems for the relevant technical teams and communicate any downtimes efficiently. Your experience will be instrumental in delivering lasting solutions to recurring problems, and you will be involved in the orientation and training of new team members to uphold our team's high standards.   You'll have opportunity to:  

·       Build good understanding of the customer and business needs along with products & associated features. Collaborate with product owner and other stakeholders for requirement elicitation.

·       Develop good quality code following established engineering practices and ensure on-time delivery. Provide mentoring via mobbing, pairing, design, and code review

·       Develop application code for programs while ensuring established controls, policies, regulations, and other applicable non-functional requirements

·       Build and Leverage automation and testing practices to support complete test pyramid (Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing/E2E Testing) and resolve defects

·       Proactively monitor and provide support & maintenance to the Product as per the established support agreement.

·       Leverage deep understanding of all layers of software development and expertise in more than one area such as Run time environments, Database, APIs, User interface/User experience, Quality Assurance/Automated testing, Security concerns throughout the program, etc.

50%

·       Develop and/or leverage expertise in technologies, frameworks, and tools used in the project. Build understanding of underlying product, architecture, and key design decisions to understand 'why' and participate in technical solutioning of features to better understand 'how'

·       Participate in building cloud native solutions and/or migrating existing application on cloud -infrastructure

·       Get actively involved in Training, self-development & knowledge sharing. Support and develop software engineers by providing advice and coaching

·       Stay informed on internal and external technology trends

20%

·       Drive implementation of DevOps practices and tools

·       Look for improvement opportunities beyond stated problems, evaluate options, and propose solutions by collaborating, leveraging best practices, and making use of available data

·       Participate in Agile or equivalent ceremonies applicable to the execution framework

20%

·       With guidance from your leader, develop understanding of organization's strategy, applicable high-level initiatives, and relate how your work links with the operational plans  

·       Performs other job-related duties and special projects/ proof of concepts as required

·       Active participation in Organizational & Team level initiatives

·       Adhering to Principal Information Security Policy and Compliance requirements

Who You are: 

4 to 7 years of experience in developing, testing and maintaining the application/s with established processes by conducting analysis, eliciting requirements, assisting in design, writing correct and clean code leveraging best practices, contributing to DevOps practices, testing/debugging, working on documentation, participating in quality assurance review, implementation and maintenance, and guiding other engineers on the team.

·       Graduate – Bachelor's degree (any stream) 

Mainframe Skills - Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS(good to have) 

Qualifications

Soft Skills

Engineering Characteristics:

•       Customer/stakeholder-oriented

•       Collaborative/team-oriented

•       Continuous learners

•       Focused on building the right thing with the right technology

•       Solution-based, problem solvers

•       Critical and independent thinkers

•       Curious/experimenters

•       Adaptable

•       Owners of and accountable for work

•       Data-driven thinkers

•       Externally aware

Additional Information

Our Engineering Culture:

In our Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've nurtured a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we collaborate closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs. Collaboration is ingrained into every aspect of our work – from the products we develop to the world-class service we offer. We are motivated by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is crucial to crafting the finest products and experiences for our customers. Come join us and become a part of a highly ambitious team dedicated to delivering impeccable solutions

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