Principal Software Engineer (US)

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$148,720 - $240,240 USD

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Line of Business:

Technology Solutions Job Description:

The Principal Software Engineer provides technical expertise with a focus on bank and industry-wide solutions that address capability gaps to create significant value for customers. This role implements solutions, ensuring efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in an industry-leading manner.

This role provides deep technical leadership, sets direction in developing and implementing solutions to address the Platform or Journey's emerging business needs and strategies. This role advances the overall design, architecture, and technology capabilities in accordance with industry developments. This role teaches, mentors, and coaches others. Additionally, advocates for others to make sure their work is recognized.

• Depth & Scope:
• Leading authority on Software engineering concepts, principals, practices and standards

• •Thought leader on IT risk-based approaches to Software engineering and on other domains in technology control / information security fields
• •Sets the direction and oversees the work of other Software Engineering professionals on complex, highly-visible projects of significant profile, strategic importance, and enterprise impact to the bank
• •Establishes and leads Software engineering working groups to achieve goals that impact multiple Journeys and Platform
• •Provides consultative and strategic guidance to executive leadership
• •Engineering specialist assigned to work autonomously on high profile, complex and high-risk technology initiatives with significant impact to the organization
• •Has a blend of skills in Software engineering, architecture, solutions architecture, application security and coding
• •Primarily works at the enterprise level

Education & Experience:

• •Undergraduate degree, Post Graduate degree or Technical Certificate
• •Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• •Graduate degree nice to have
• •15 years relevant experience

Customer Accountabilities:

• •Is responsible for advancing the software engineering practices through processes and tools, setting development and design standards at business unit and/or enterprise level
• •Executes on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configure activities across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
• •Leads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a "build it, break it, fix it mentality".
• •Is responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and acts as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• •Is accountable for complex applications/ systems development, programming / coding
• •Develops functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• •Consults on development of requirements and specifications and applies functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
• •Reviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
• •Identifies, recommends, sources, negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in support of client needs
• •Works with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• •Identifies and addresses application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• •Researches/ analyzes business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collects environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities
• •Works with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project
• •Contributes to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration, research, analytic, and problem-solving skills

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• •Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• •Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
• •Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• •Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
• •Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
• •Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
• •Conducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• •Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• •Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
• •Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• •Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manage risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• •Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
• •Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• •Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• •Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• •Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• •Participates in personal performance management and de