Principal Engineer- Core Services & Infrastructure

Our client's Core Technology teams are the lifeblood of their global financial services network, supplying a wide range of systems and services that drive all aspects of the company. Whether it is powering their network of thousands of field engineers, ensuring financial tools are available to millions of customers worldwide, or ensuring the internal systems are well integrated and leverage the latest in technological advancements.The Core Technology team is a great place to apply your talents, working with a fantastic team of people who care deeply about serving our customers and leveraging technology.

Principle Engineers are visionary technical leaders and hands-on builders in our core technology team. Ideal candidates will have deep knowledge and problem-solving capability to deal with the technical realities of building and operating modern, highly-scaled systems for both services and data. In this role, you will exhibit strong technical judgment and influence teams to continuously abstract, simplify, innovate, and automate the systems that support our global business. Being able to span from architecture and strategy to detailed technical direction is also a key component of the role. This includes spending significant time in the code to lay out technical architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment across a 300+ person engineering team. It also includes shaping the direction of a project from a business perspective to make sure modern technical approaches to common business problems are being represented and leveraged in any solution.

Skill and Experience Requirements:
•    6+ years of experience building scalable microservices in a complex environment with a mix of technologies.
•    Experience with containerization and serverless technologies.
•    Experience with a variety of tools and technical approaches to integrate systems, enable scale, and provide security.
•    Experience collecting high-level requirements and translating them into pragmatic and modern technical solutions.
• Proficient with various programming languages (Javascript, Python, Java) and engineering techniques for the creation of APIs (RESTFul, gRPC, etc.), real-time data streaming, automation, and other backend architectures.
•    Extensive experience with cloud services and tools in Azure, AWS, or GCP. Knowledge of specific services like Azure Service Bus, Blob Storage, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure DevOps, CDN, Cosmos, or similar AWS services would be ideal.
•    Deep understanding of modern DevOps approaches to automating applications, simplifying hosting, and creating scalable and automated code pipelines to support rapid release cycles using Github, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and other technologies.
•    Passionate and proactive about learning new technologies and mentoring others.
•    Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse technical and non-technical teams.

As part of this role, you will:
•    Collaborate to solve complex, large-scale problems, integrate disparate systems and technologies, and innovate new ways to expose and leverage data across the enterprise and with our customers.
•    Propose elegant and simple architectures that scale but are also maintainable long-term and reduce the need for routine manual intervention by support teams.
•    Leverage new technology like generative AI to rethink existing business processes.
•    Evolve the design and architecture of current systems to support our platforms' and company's continued growth.
•    Develop the next generation of our cloud platforms that power our global financial network
•    Partner with various teams across the organization to develop features and functionality and enable new experiences
•    Bring an advanced, modern technical perspective to influence our business partners and technology organization, elevate our products in the market, and drive new capabilities

Other important skills and technologies:
Cloud Technologies:
•    AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other relevant cloud providers
•    Cloud-native architecture and design principles
•    Serverless computing (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
•    Cloud security best practices
•    Containerization and virtualization approaches in Cloud
•    Service Catalogs, system templating, and other cloud service management techniques

Application Technologies:
•    Knowledge of Java and JavaScript tech stacks and common programming languages
•    Familiarity with open-source application frameworks and libraries
•    Microservices Architecture, API integration, and development using REST and/or gRPC

Legacy Enterprise Applications:
•    Integration techniques with Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and other enterprise applications
•    Legacy system modernization strategies, including data migration, code refactoring, parallel systems

Docker and Containerization:
•    Building and managing Docker containers
•    Container orchestration with Kubernetes and other cloud-based orchestrators

Orchestration and Observability:
•    Kubernetes or other container orchestration
•    Monitoring tools (such as Prometheus, Grafana)
•    Logging and tracing solutions (e.g., ELK Stack, Jaeger)

Data & Integration:
•    Real-time data streaming and transformation using tools like Kafka
•    API-based data integration
•    Ability to engineer data solutions using SQL and NoSQL data architectures in the cloud

Soft Skills and Personal Traits:
   - Strong problem-solving abilities
   - Excellent communication and collaboration skills
   - Ability to work in cross-functional teams
   - Adaptability and willingness to learn
   - Attention to detail and a focus on quality