Senior Consultant - Software Engineering

As a leader at Principal, you’re responsible for activating our strategy, meeting evolving customer needs, and crafting an inclusive culture. Our leadership expectations serve as a guide to the standards encouraged from all our leaders. Our leaders need to be a positive brand ambassador of our core values and purpose. They need to understand our code of conduct and know the responsibility to comply. They stay respectful of diversity and differences and work towards building inclusive teams and partnerships.

What You'll do

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. 

You'll have opportunity to:

Essential Functions 

Description 

% of Time Spent 

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 

35% 

Solution Design & Implementation 

• Lead, design and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in. 

• Support broad architecture; design and implement large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure.  

• Quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get to solid resolutions faster. Able to recognize and make trade-offs with respect to the whole system.  

• Capable of debugging the most complex problems that the team encounters. 

• Anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them 

• Practice/Implement Design thinking approach 

35% 

Strategy  

• Good understanding of business strategic initiatives; consistently influence decision-making at the business level  

• Be abreast with latest technology trends  

10% 

Talent Maturity  

• Grow the team's ability to own and design all software development layers of a solution, proactively nurture talent of the senior staff in the area 

• Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work 

• Demonstrate engineering mindset and build it in teams 

15% 

Other  

• Contribution to CoPs (Community of Practice) 

• Networking for sharing and getting cross BU best practices 

5% 

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

Skill Area

Requirement

Expected Proficiency

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

Skill Area

Expected Proficiency

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