Senior Consultant - Software Engineering

Job Summary

In the role of Senior Consultant - Software Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will be owner of, and expert on large sections of our solutions. Consistently able to reduce the complexity of projects, services, and processes in order to get more done with less work. Consult with business partners and make recommendations on future technical trends/directions that encompass multiple systems and teams to meet business strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Delivery ownership expertise on large sections of our solutions / multiple systems - Implementations support
• Building application/systems roadmap - mid to longer term (6-12 months)
• Leverage enterprise level methodologies, tools, processes, technologies, design patterns in implementations and advance adoption within business unit
• Lead Continuous Improvement practices within area of influence
• Identify opportunities for business and technology Innovation aligned with HLIs
• Bring automation first mindset to automate business processes
• Collaborate with internal and external partners for implementing end to end solutions

Qualifications

Who You Are

• Education: Graduate - Bachelor s degree (Engineering) or Masters in Computers or relevant
• Experience: 10 to 13 years of IT application development experience

Must Have Skills

• Programming (Java TypeScript) - Must Have Expert in both languages with strong coding, debugging, and production support experience
• Solution Design Architecture - Must Have Strong HLD/LLD, SOLID principles, 12-Factor Apps, design patterns, and architecture trade-off analysis
• Distributed Systems - Must Have Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS
• AWS Cloud Engineering - Must Have Hands-on experience with S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Fargate, Docker, CloudWatch
• NFR Engineering - Must Have Security, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Observability, and Maintainability by design
• DevOps SRE - Must Have CI/CD, Blue-Green Deployments, Monitoring, Incident Management, Operational Excellence
• Technical Leadership - Must Have Technical ownership, architecture reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices

Good-to-Have Skills

• Streaming Platforms (Kafka/Kinesis) - Hands-on implementation experience
• Kubernetes / EKS - Container orchestration and platform operations
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code - Automated infrastructure provisioning
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - Domain modeling and bounded context design
• Event Sourcing Advanced Patterns - Scalable distributed architecture patterns
• AIOps Advanced Observability - Intelligent monitoring and operational insights
• Security Architecture - Threat modeling and secure solution design
• GenAI / AI Engineering - AI-enabled application development and automation

Reporting Relationships

• This job reports to: Program Manager
• Direct Reports: None

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