Principal Applications Engineer

As a Principal Applications Engineer on our team, you will be expected to:

• Take Ownership: Work with a geographically dispersed team of world-class engineers in a product development environment, taking full ownership and accountability to see projects through to completion.
• Collaborate Effectively: Partner with product managers, QA owners, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver user stories and backlog items with the highest quality and consistency across the product.
• Embrace Agility: Be self-driven and comfortable progressing even when certain aspects of a project are not fully defined.
• Drive Transformation: Demonstrate the ability to implement transformational changes in a highly technical and dynamic environment.
• Exhibit Expertise: Show expert knowledge in performance, large-scale enterprise application development, system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Develop Robust Solutions: Create ultra-scalable and highly reliable diagnostic tools and support features, including fault tolerance, telemetry, and automatic recovery in error scenarios.
• Cultivate Customer Relationships: Passionately uncover the technical and operational requirements behind new feature requests, providing alternative technical and functional solutions that align with customer timelines and commitments.
• Lead Through Complexity: Offer design insights for the most complex challenges faced by the team, leveraging your extensive software engineering knowledge and experience.
• Balance Leadership and Judgment: Combine technical leadership with strong business acumen to make informed decisions regarding technology and application design.
• Mentor and Hire: Assist in the ongoing hiring and development of technical talent to support organizational growth.

To Succeed as a Principal Applications Engineer, You MUST Have:

• Proficiency in Core Technologies: Strong expertise in Java, J2EE, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional analytical abilities coupled with strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Designing and Impact Analysis Skills : Strong skills in designing solutions and conducting impact analysis to evaluate the effects of changes on existing systems and processes.
• Performance Tuning Expertise: In-depth knowledge of performance tuning techniques in Java, SQL, or related technologies.
• CI/CD Experience: Proven experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles in cloud-based web applications.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and executive leadership.
• Fast-Paced Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where speed to market is critical.
• Mentorship Experience: At least 4-5 years of experience mentoring teams on functional and technical designs.

Additional Skills That Would Be a Plus:

• Familiarity with Oracle Logistics Cloud Applications: Knowledge of OTM, GTM, and SCM.
• DevOps Tools: Familiarity with tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Docker, and Gradle.
• Design Patterns: Proficiency in software design patterns.
• AI/ML Exposure: Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Qualifications:

• Experience: A minimum of 10 years in your IT career.
• Education: An engineering degree (B.E./B.Tech/M.Tech) from a reputable institution, with a strong and consistent academic record.

Career Level - IC4

As a member of the software engineering division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.