Principal Financial Group
Website:
principal.com
Job details:
Responsibilities
What You'll do
In the role of Senior Consultant - Software Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will be working hand-in-hand with our product development team, you will interpret user needs and transform them into clear technical specifications. Making sure our software products remain scalable, stable, and efficient will be critical for your success. Coordinate, direct, and finalize projects/initiatives according to business objectives. Work with one or more engineering teams to achieve remarkable value for the business.
You'll Have Opportunity To
Strategy
- Able to understand business strategic initiatives; consistently influence decision-making.
Solution Design & Implementation
- Lead, design, and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in.
- Capable of debugging the most complex problems that the team encounters.
- Anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design recommendation to avoid them.
- Practice/Implement Design thinking approach.
Talent Maturity
- Mentor the team for Best practices in Coding and Designing Secure software development solutions. Proactively nurture talent.
Delivery
- Prepare High level designs including feasibility study, proof of concepts and related artefacts. Ensure designs meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate with Architects and business for aligning designs with BU specific architecture roadmap and guidelines.
- Incorporate industry design best practices -principles and patterns to produce optimal designs.
- Contribute to development and testing of complex functionality and provide support for delivery throughout SDLC phases.
- Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications.
- Understand technical pain areas of development team on day-to-day basis and suggest possible alternatives process.
- Provide Support to Delivery Manager / Technical Lead for estimation and risk identification. Mitigate technical and Design risks & Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners. Will need to provide on-call support.
Qualifications
Who You are:
Education: Graduate/Bachelors Engineering degree
Experience
- 11 to 13+ years of experience in Software Engineering & 5-6 years of Strong Full stack development background using Distributed technologies like J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Boot etc.
- Application development using Relational Databases - Oracle/Db2 and Strong SQL skills.
- Application Design Skills & applied understanding of design patterns
- Exposure to Microservices
- AWS exposure will be an added advantage.
- Good understanding of Modern web technologies
- Experience in designing including considerations for non-functional systems qualities.
- Experience to execute POCs and establish reference implementations.
Good Knowledge of SDLC (like Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, SAFE)
Additional Information
As a leader at Principal, you’re responsible for activating our strategy, meeting evolving customer needs, and crafting an inclusive culture. Our leadership expectations serve as a guide to the standards encouraged from all our leaders. Our leaders need to be a positive brand ambassador of our core values and purpose. They need to understand our code of conduct and know the responsibility to comply. They stay respectful of diversity and differences and work towards building inclusive teams and partnerships.
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