Principal Software Engineer

Your role and responsibilities (Mandatory)

This role is contributing to the Digital Business technical Leadership role in Cloud and AI platform.

You will be mainly accountable for:

Product Development:

• Provide technical leadership, set coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Architect and Design (HLD & LLD) complex software systems involving AI/ML use cases, MLOps around C#, .NET / Python, and Angular.
• Create the WBS for the feature that needs to be incorporated.
• Ensure that the team follows cybersecurity best practices and provide continuous guidance to improve the coding practices
• Ensure the team follows best practices in coding, testing, and debugging.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and adherence to standards.
• Implement and enforce automated testing and continuous integration practices.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in software systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and design documents.
• Collaborate with team to plan for product roadmap, demonstrate MVPs and work with product management team on planning and prioritization of features
• Ensure documentation is accessible and up to date for the development team.
• Create and maintain the product design, architecture documentation and is accessible to all stakeholders.

People Management:

• Manage and mentor a team of developers, providing technical guidance and career development support.
• Delegate tasks, set priorities, and ensure the team''s productivity.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders.
• Provide regular sprint status updates and reports.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Review dependencies and remove technical blockers to ensure independent work progress by team
• Manage and collaborate with stakeholders outside the team to ensure effective collaboration among teams involved.

Scrum Processes:

• Act as a Scrum Master or work closely with one to ensure adherence to Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
• Identify opportunities to optimize the Scrum process and increase team efficiency.
• Provide coaching and training on Scrum practices as needed.

• Bachelor''s or Master''s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proven experience (7+ years) in a technical leadership, working with software engineering teams.
• Expert knowledge of LLMOps principles, NLP frameworks and architecture of systems
• Deep understanding of different model types, management and monitoring of large number of AIML models on a production environment
• Experience in model monitoring concepts for different types of language models
• Experience with Azure cloud computing services, such as Azure App Service, Azure Cosmos, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cognitive Datalake, Azure SQL Server
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithmsssss
• Experience with designing & developing scalable, microservices-based systems with asynchronous programming and design patterns
• Expertise in working in CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, deployment processes.
• Ability to design and implement complex, scalable, and secure web & Rest API applications
• Understanding of Industrial IoT protocols and standards, such as MQTT, OPC UA.
• Experience in mentoring team members and helping them grow professionally. Excellent documentation skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to foster a culture of knowledge sharing within the organization.