Principal Software Engineer

• The Principal Software Engineer will influence a wide variety of business and technology decisions. This role will design, implement, and deliver cross-functional solutions for highly complex problems. This role will provide technical direction for an organization and set up an excellent engineering culture.
• Identifies problems, takes initiative, and makes an impact by driving clarity, convergence, and closure across teams and stakeholders.
• Actively looks out for tough problems (ie, issues faced by customers, challenges faced by engineers, problems encountered by business leaders, etc).
• Defines and executes the technical strategy for retail technology, ensuring alignment with business objectives, in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Decomposes complex problems to build simple solutions that can evolve over a period of time.
• Ensures smooth deployment and adoption of new systems in partnership with product owners and key stakeholders. Owns the end-to-end technical view of a solution and shapes the synergy between multiple systems.
• Identifies and analyzes tradeoffs to create exemplary architecture in terms of stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Champions and implements modern software methodologies to streamline development processes.
• Provides technical leadership in design and development of a system. Ensures the best quality of high-level and low-level designs. Builds secure systems that protect information and assets while delivering business value. Dives deep and fixes a complex system issue. Drives root cause analysis during critical production outages.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and intelligent platform for Omni channel purchase journey and omni channel quoting systems, aligning with company goals and customer needs
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of omni Order/ quote creation, impact on downstream and upstream systems, including distributed architecture, integrations, and scalability considerations
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, applying innovative solutions to providing customers a seamless collaborative shopping experience and understanding the omni order management challenges
• Independently lead projects with significant business implications, participating in planning, priority estimates, and advising Software Engineers.
• Mentor and advise others in all software development lifecycle phases, sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
• Support systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for large, complex, cross-functional application initiatives, ensuring proper test coverage.
• Communicate changes in software architecture, coach others to apply this understanding to software solutions, and resolve escalated issues.