Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

The Purpose of this Role

Produce high-quality, testable, readable, and easily maintainable code. Participate in and lead all phases of the development process, from conception to deployment as a member of an agile, cross-functional team. Demonstrates leadership and maintains a continuous technology progressive mentality. Supports junior associates to develop solutions that improve processes.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or Equivalent.

• You have hands-on experience in building the interconnected systems that enable a business to operate, including hardware, software, network and database.

• Very Strong expertise in updating and maintaining legacy systems to leverage modern technologies and architectures.

• You have the expertise and experience in designing and developing microservices which can handle high Transaction Per Second traffic.

• Strong understanding of data governance principles and best practices.

• You are experienced with a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks. 10+ years of experience working with Java, Springboot, Oracle, Kubernetes, Kafka, Azure/AWS cloud technologies.

• You have a passion for technology and can stay on top of latest technology trends.

• Good working knowledge on ITIL processes like Incident management, Change management etc.,

• You have hands-on experience leading or mentoring scrum teams focused on building software solutions for business critical, architecturally distributed experiences. The teams you have worked with have multi-functional responsibilities such as engineering, quality, devops and release implementation.

• You care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to production while minimizing risk.

• Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions with partners across different roles and different skillsets.

The Skills that are Key to This Role

• Hands on experience in Java, Spring, Springboot, Event/Listener messaging frameworks

• Hands on experience in Designing and Developing Robust RESTful API

• Hands on experience in Hashicorp Vault, Terraform and Packer

• Hands on experience in Kubernetes tools and services, including managed Kubernetes platforms, service meshes, monitoring solutions, and security tools

• In-depth understanding on API Management – Stratum/Apigee

• Proven experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. preferably Azure – Namespace, AKS, ASB, Data Factory, API Management, Storage Account, and Redis.

• Hands on experience in container-based development (Docker)

• Hands on experience working with EDA solutions such as Kafka/ MQ

• Hands on experience working with database and data concepts, tools and technologies (Oracle, PL/SQL Informatica)

• Familiarity working with OAuth 2.0 framework and scopes

• Experience in implementing Micro services Architecture & building / deploying highly automated, scalable and maintainable infrastructure.

• Experience in designing and developing apps with high throughput and low latency utilizing load balancing, caching, threading etc.

• Knowledge on CD process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (GitHub, Jenkins, uDeploy, Stash)

• Strategic thinking and critical problem-solving skills

Good to have skills to this Role

• Knowledge in Control M, DB2 to CICS, Cloud to CICS and MAUI

The Value You Deliver

• Define, develop, and implement application-level architecture hosted in the cloud.

• Use your expertise and leadership to influence and gain consensus on how to proceed, remove impediments and strive for robust team success sprint over sprint.

• Consistently making culture choices that positively impact the team, helping the team to create a better work environment.

• Understand the leadership vision and own the execution of that vision.

• Cultivate a culture of best-in-class software engineering practices

• Deliver system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines

• Communicate effectively in team environment.

• Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction.

• The team will view you as an advocate for continuous learning helping them improve sprint over sprint. You help build a trustful, open environment which is encouraging of problem solving and experimentation.

The Expertise We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience.  Completed three or more projects on commercially available applications.

• B.E./B Tech in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

BU Overview

WI (Workplace Investments) helps our customers save and invest through workplace retirement savings plans, build lifetime relationships with customers and provide employers with cost-effective, integrated employee benefit solutions. WI serves customers online, over the phone, and through a nationwide network of investor centers. WI is also committed to helping drive employee retirement readiness by delivering leading-edge financial solutions to employers, including recordkeeping, cash management products and services and personal advisory services (PAS).

Location Chennai

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 08:00pm