Principal Engineer – Vice President

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Automated Processing and AI

Qualifications

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling such as Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, or Jenkins, in either on-premise or public cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and API management platforms.
• Experience with observability, security, and monitoring tooling including Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Design and build critical features and complex full-stack solutions using Java, delivering clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets the highest quality standards across multiple agile teams.
• Collaborate with fellow Principal Engineers to define, evolve, and influence overall system architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned to business requirements.
• Deliver against sprint-level commitments as an active contributor to agile delivery cycles, participating in planning, code reviews, and Scrum ceremonies across teams.
• Provide expert technical guidance to engineering teams, helping them navigate complex challenges, make sound design decisions, and consistently ship high-quality software.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends, providing actionable recommendations for adoption that improve engineering capability and product outcomes.
• Partner continuously with stakeholders across the software development lifecycle to ensure technical solutions are aligned to business goals and delivered with measurable impact.
• Promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement across teams, fostering knowledge sharing, engineering best practices, and a high standard of craft.
• Required Qualifications & Skills
• 6 or more years of software engineering experience building and delivering production-grade applications using Java, with a clear command of data structures and object-oriented design principles.
• Proven depth in cloud-native development and container orchestration, with hands-on use of tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift across multiple years of delivery.
• Extensive experience designing and building microservices and service-oriented architectures, including RESTful APIs and GraphQL implementations.
• Strong working knowledge of Java frameworks including Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x, applied across real-world software delivery.
• Practical experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, automation, design patterns, and peer code review as core parts of the development workflow.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling such as Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, or Jenkins, in either on-premise or public cloud environments.
• Multiple years of working within agile and iterative delivery frameworks, contributing actively to sprint execution and team-level Scrum practices.
• Architecture experience designing horizontally scalable, highly available, and low-latency distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS or OpenShift.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture patterns and streaming technologies, including Kafka, Spark, or Flink.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and API management platforms.
• Experience with observability, security, and monitoring tooling including Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch.
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to teams of five or more engineers, with exposure to front-end technologies such as React or Angular and database concepts across RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred