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Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: PSU IT
Reporting Lines:
This role reports to the Executive Manager PSU, India.
Impact & contribution
As a Principal Software Engineer within Payments Technology - PaaS, you will be responsible for implementing the designs within your application to align to PaaS Architecture. Specifically, as a Principal Software Engineer, you are expected to develop solutions and guide design to drive outcomes across the Core Product Systems within PaaS. You are responsible for design analysis and the estimation process from Business Case, ideation, discovery and inception phases
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design and implement BIAN APIs and specifications
- Lead high performing API and Cloud Engineering team
- Ownership and governance of solution designs
- Adopt a ‘Design to Run’ mentality to architect robust solutions that are fully supportable in a production environment
- Provide developmental advice and consult for business case/ideation, discovery, inception and enhancement requests by examining current vs target architectures ensuring align with ES strategy and architecture standards
- Collaborate with Solution Architecture and functional SME’s to prototype solutions to explore alternatives, seeking simple & standard solutions with a low cost of ownership
- Collaborate with upstream and downstream system representatives to ensure an integrated end to end solution is delivered to achieve the desired outcomes
- Proactively seek opportunities for continuous improvement of Core Product systems and data to leverage existing capabilities
- Work with senior technical and business management teams in identifying issues of current state architecture, developing target state architecture with the ability to communicate the features and benefits
Essential Skills
- 14-18 Years of experience in building REST APIs
- Well versed with microservice architecture
- Experience in Java/J2EE and Scripting Language (TypeScript/JavaScript/Python)
- Experience in AWS services like lambda, API gateway, EKS Cluster, IM Roles & Policy, Bean Stalk, Fargate, VPC, SubNets, Route tables, Load balancer etc.
- CI-CD Tools – Github, Github Action, Sonar Qube/Cloud, Teamcity/Jenkin, Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring and logging tools – Splunk/ObservInc, AppDynamics, Cloud Watch Canary
- Technical leader who can be relied upon to develop and lead engineers
- Technical leadership of tools and technologies within capability (develop, build, test automation, deployment, monitoring & logging, or service management & orchestration) being specialized
- Strong understanding of application architecture and knowledge of software implementation best practices and object orientated design principles
- You are able to debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream
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