Principal Software Engineer​/Developer

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Job Description:

** Position Description**:

Applies Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) methods using technologies -- Jenkins and Ansible. Builds, develops, and scales high availability web services using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and API methodologies -- REST and SOAP. Builds and supports a security platform using automation technologies to create a robust platform for the enterprise. Creates reliable, efficient, reusable, and secure front-end components and user experiences using Java, Dropwizard, JUnit, C++, SQL, JSON, Docker, and Jetty.

Modifies complex web infrastructures in an Agile environment. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
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* Primary Responsibilities:

*** Participates in architecture design teams.
* Defines and implements application-level architecture.
* Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
* Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
* Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
* Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
* Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
* Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
* Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
* Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
* Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
* Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
* Advises senior management on technical strategy.
* Mentors junior team members.
* Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
* Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.
** Education and Experience**:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and operating large, highly reliable, and scalable distributed systems using Java, Docker, and Kubernetes within an Agile environment.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) building and operating large, highly reliable, and scalable distributed systems using Java, Docker, and Kubernetes within an Agile environment.
** Skills and Knowledge**:

Candidate must also possess:
* Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing Object-Oriented (OO) design and Java Web application development using Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Jersey, SOAP, RESTful Web Services, and Lightning Web Components (LWC); and developing micro-services architecture using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
* DE improving the security of applications and distributed caching -- Ignite/Hazelcast and Cloud Elasti Cache (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redis to be consumed by APIs) -- to achieve faster data results, using Web security technologies (OAuth Encrypted Key Management, Applications Secrets Management, and SAML), AWS KMS, and AWS Crypto to improve the security.
* DE developing and maintaining responsive UI applications, using JavaScript frameworks, jQuery, Node.js, Handlebar JS, AJAX, Express, and Bootstrap CSS; performing unit and functional testing for API and Selenium IDE/Jest User Interfaces (UIs), using JUnit, Mockito, Power Mockito, and…