Principal Engineer - Digital Product Catalog

About the position

In the role of the Principal Engineer-Software Development, you will be leading the development project team members and providing technical leadership across multiple customer-facing digital channels. This role will work with an understanding of how the business operates and focusing on tangible business outcomes to deliver financial and business improvements. You will own technical design authority for the digital applications and marketing solution sets in your portfolio and help the technical leads translate business needs to technology requirements.

Responsibilities

• Leading software development efforts for digital product catalog development for Value GTS, including business requirement identification, scope, development, build and enhancements to respective technology.
• Leveraging strong problem-solving skills in a complex digital environment as well as the ability to institute quality and continuous management principles into practice.
• Executing enterprise technology strategy for the product catalog by defining and driving architecture decisions to redesign and transform the platform to a Catalog driven architecture.
• Leading the technology strategy delivery to build a scalable and reliable platform to serve millions of customer transactions by leveraging modern engineering principles.
• Establishing goals and objectives and recommending solutions for multi-brand and multi-channel product offerings.
• Implementing all the major product catalog aspects of Product setup, configuration, pricing and promotions using the Enterprise product catalog platform.
• Leading, and advising the platform, infrastructure shared services, and dependent APIs required to empower technology teams to deliver faster.
• Working closely with QA teams to ensure the quality and reliability of digital product catalog platform.
• Interacting with internal/external stakeholders to review the proposed technical architecture for any given business requirement, provide technical solutions and feedback.
• Leading and being the single point of contact for relationship and all technology efforts across value organization with implementation partners to successfully launch the programs reaching the company goals.
• Implementing and maintaining security measures to protect IT systems and data meeting PCI standards.
• Guiding and mentoring technical team members, promoting best practices and professional development, coaching the next-generation technology talent.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience with technology transformation/migration to modern, highly scalable architectures.
• Experience with product offering lifecycle management.
• Experience leading digital commerce platforms like Tecnotree or any other product catalog platforms like IBM Commerce, Amdocs Catalog One.
• Experience working within a Docker, including REST/API development experience, AWS including EC2, CloudWatch, S3, Cloud Front, API Gateway, Kafka(MSK), ELBs, VPC, RDS.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines, Unit and Automated Integration Testing, Application Logging and Monitoring tools.
• Experience with API creation and also integration.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Application development technical project leadership experience in large complex corporate environments, including omni-channel transactions and experience.
• Experience in MongoDB, MySQL.
• Experience working on Catalog systems with TFForum compliance or any other standards.
• Experience leading and working with Agile teams.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development practices.
• Experience working on SecDevOps models.
• Ability to be a problem solver and creative thinker who can confidently express complex ideas in an articulate, concise manner and have an acute ability for attention to detail.
• Ability to identify opportunities, facilitate workout sessions to ideate, and come up with joint cross-functional solutions to improve consumer and frontline experiences.
• Strong presentation skills to communicate complex concepts effectively.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Short term incentives
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Stock incentive programs
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition assistance
• Other incentives