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As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.
Are you ready to join our team?
Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.
COMPANY: National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
TITLE: Senior Principal Software Engineer
LOCATION: Washington, D.C. and various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. (remote position)
DUTIES: Designs, builds, and presents architecture that will last beyond current initiative on Salesforce Platform/Products. Confirms User Stories are clear and follows Agile development methodology and robust testing regimen to deliver quality code per design. Prepares and deploys solutions by determining and designing system specifications and programming standards. Creates and updates Functional and Technical Design documentation to ensure as-deployed system documentation is current. Designs solutions that consume Salesforce Licenses effectively and limit technical debt on the Salesforce Platform. Performs code reviews of development teams to enforce applicable coding, security, and quality standards. Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. Protects Amtrak by following Information Security, Application Architecture Standards, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Proactively reviews Salesforce Releases to recommend and provide ongoing maintenance of applications. Assists in the development of user guides and training documentation. Provides technical guidance or system process expertise.
REQUIREMENTS: Must have a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field with seven (7) years of progressive, post-bachelors experience as a Senior Principal Software Engineer or any occupation related to Software Development. Alternatively, must have a Master’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field with four (4) years of progressive, post-masters experience as a Senior Principal Software Engineer or any occupation related to Software Development. Must also have four (4) years of experience: (1) Developing applications on Service Cloud with minimal customization and maximize configuration; (2) Developing Community Cloud applications for external customers with no comprise to security and limit only needed objects and fields exposed externally; (3) Reviewing all aspects of Force.com, Lightning Container, Lightning UX Builder, Lightning Flow including Process Builder and Cloud Flow Designer, Platform Events, Async REST, Sync REST, and Continuation Framework (integration), Salesforce DX (dev hub) in developing robust and scalable solutions on Salesforce Platform; (4) Using Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, Data Architecture and Management Designer, and Integration Architecture domains; and (5) Developing on Salesforce Visualforce, Apex, SOQL/ SOSL, Wave and Einstein Analytics. Must also have one (1) year of experience: (6) Developing Journeys and Email templates in Marketing Cloud to automate Marketing Campaigns; and (7) Developing beacons, ingestions of data, and integration of data into CDP from Personalization (previously Interaction Studio). All experience may be acquired concurrently. Remote work permitted in accordance with standard company policy. All positions require pre-employment background check verification and a pre-employment drug screen.
SALARY: $165,173 to $179,300 per year
CONTACT: To apply, https://bit.ly/4aMMtnq. Please reference Job Code: 7207620.
Requisition ID:161403
Posting Location(s):N/A; District of Columbia
Job Family/Function:Engineering
Relocation Offered:No
Travel Requirements:0 - 5%
You power our progress through your performance.
We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.
Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.
Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.
In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.
In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.
Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.
