Senior Principal Software Engineer

Opentext - The Information Company

Open Text is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can’t replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Sr. Principal Software Engineer main role is to provide expertise in all levels of design and development in software application development across multiple projects. He must take into consideration the framework needs, security, network intricacies and scalability. He is expected to serve as the team’s subject matter expert in most areas of development. Sr. Principal Software Engineer organizes the efforts of application development including technical project management.

• Act as the key resource for setting technical directions defining and deploying solid engineering practices, coaching and mentoring other engineers and qualifying engineering project plans
• Prepare, review and approve the solution, integration, physical, security designs of the project
• Interact with the cross-functional teams
• Provide project estimates
• Prepare, review and/or approve project software requirements, specifications and other artifacts (Software Design Document, Entity Relationship Diagram, etc.)
• Lead in the preparation of Technical Architecture Documents
• Identify risks and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture
• Conduct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standard in support of procurement and development efforts
• Recommend and implement software upgrades, tools and techniques
• Code software programs and applications according to specifications
• Code review and ensure code quality throughout application life cycle.
• Implement process improvements
• Analyze data from software analysis tools for the purpose of correcting errors, isolating areas for project improvement
• Generate statistics and prepare reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process
• Troubleshoot cross-component/technology issues in areas of expertise
• Provide support to multiple projects
• Provide production support as needed
• Engage in project level planning/project management

• 15+ years of relevant experience with expert level professional/technical skills.
• Complete understanding of software development life cycle using various methodologies
• Expert in implementing (coding & unit testing) detailed design into application functionalities using Java/JEE as the primary development language.
• Expert in JEE Web Services Technologies: e.g., JAXB, Java APIs for XML Messaging
• Experience in designing of end to end solution by using any of the following object oriented design, SOA, Domain Driven, etc.
• Should be proficient in the following:
  • Distributed and multi-threaded systems on a relational database.
  • Micro-services and distributed service-oriented architectures
  • Design and implementation of REST APIs.
  • Developing on a modern front-end framework
  • Using a test-driven approach to writing code
• Accomplished to master level in knowledge and experience for the following:
  • Design Patterns
  • Framework (Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
  • JEE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition)
• JEE Web Application Technologies: e.g., Servlet, JSP/EL, JSTL
• JEE Enterprise Application Technologies: e.g., EJB, JMS, Java Persistence, JDBC, Dependency Injection for Java
• Database:
  • Database structures
• DB DDL/DML: e.g., SQL, PL/SQL
• Database Platform: e.g., Oracle (expertise with Stored Procedures and User-defined functions), MySQL
• OS Platform (e.g. Windows, Unix, Linux)
• Application Servers (e.g. Oracle Weblogic, Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat)
• Other Development Technologies (e.g. Ajax, HTML, JQuery, XML, XSL, XSLT, CSS, Java script, Freemarker,…