Principal Developer - IT

Description

The role of Principal Developer will have technical focus on enabling Passenger Security platform for Customer travel. The role will lead the efforts to design, develop, and maintain innovative solutions and collaborate with different portfolio owners and service providers. The Principal Developer plays a critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and critical thinking skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues, opportunities, or problems in order to maximize the benefit of IT and Business investments. The Principal Developer is experienced and has decision-making authority. The Principal Developer is self - sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches' others. The Principal Developer has extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business areas.

Defines and implements the technical solutions for a new or to enhance existing system to modern technologie

Defines technical service level agreements (SLAs) and data sharing strategies with vendors.

Leads the design, development, and planning for solutions and technology standards to solve complex business problems.

Hands-on development, Support and fix software systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems, and providing follow-up on all issues and solutions.

Ensures that systems are properly integrated.

Works with business, support, or development teams recommending system enhancements.

Serves as a resource for technology/project development review and technical assessments.

Ensures that the technical solutions meet the customers' business goals.

Provide consultation and technical leadership in project life cycle planning.

Ensures consistency and coherence to the enterprise standards and guiding principles throughout the application lifecycle.

Sees opportunities to leverage/influence the direction for existing infrastructure and application components.

Keeps abreast of industry trends through benchmarking, participation in professional associations etc. to advise others of strategic technology direction.

Provides feedback to the enterprise technology owners and Architects regarding future solution needs.

Understands and applies the enterprise vision and strategy to the project solution while balancing tactical needs to deliver.

Partner with various business and IT collaborators in defining domain architecture strategy.

Demonstrate mastery of the application of development domain areas and multiple technologies and tool set

Demonstrate mastery of software engineer

Accountability for PCI/SOX environments and development

Qualifications

What is needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, other related field

Minimum of 6 years of experience in application design, development, SDLC lifecycle (experience with Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, and other open-source technologies)

Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with full stack Java development

Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (such as, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, and/or ECS).

Building scalable, highly available and resilient solution

Platform development and modernization of legacy services for cloud migration

Relational databases (MySQL, Oracle etc.) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB etc.)

Develop and support enterprise messaging like IBM MQ, Solace etc.

Experience with tools such as Cloud Watch, Dynatrace, DataDog, ELK Stack, Google Analytics etc

Experience working with high-performance teams in an agile development environment where continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are critical.

Demonstrate knowledge of software engineering best practices such as version control, software packaging and software release management.

Must be initiative-taking, possess effective communication skills (verbal and written) and be able to work in a collaborative environment.

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience designing and developing messaging platform solutions.
• AWS experience.
• AI tools and Agentic AI experience