PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

Person at this position owns architecture/ design of a specific technology area or a sub-system, formulates new solution and ideas and produces new or original work.
Person demonstrates the ability to justify a stand or decision supported by sound technical knowledge base in a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Person is able to the represent the organization externally in detailed technical discussion with the customer with a high level of authority on technical matters in a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Person leads projects which are of significant organisational profile and makes trade-off decisions to deliver solutions that both meet customers technical requirements and timelines.
Person demonstrates the ability to analyse and interpret complex problems and improve, change or adapt existing methods to solve the problem.

Responsible for ensuring that both functional and non-functional (e.g. performance, scalability, security) requirements will be met or exceeded
Responsible for providing Architecture/ high level design/ test strategy for the existing projects and new proposals for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for identification and evaluation of various tools, test languages or test methodologies and choosing the best ones for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for participating in Customer interaction for major/critical change requests/new features, moderating the meetings and highlighting impact on schedule and effort.
Responsible for reviewing Design Documents and code, Test coverage and its alignment with technical objectives.
Responsible for leading the specification of complex customer requirements for a specific technology area or a sub-system.
Responsible for leading/ participating in technical reviews to ensure quality parameters are being met.
Responsible for contribution to RFP/Documentation/complete responsibility for proposal relating to growth in existing accounts/effort estimation for new proposals.
Expected to contribute to technical capability development of organisation through subject matter expertise.
Expected to keep self-updated on trends, new developments, tools etc. in ones own area of expertise and proactively share the knowledge.

Engineering graduate, MCA, etc Experience ; > 8 years

Application Protocol Engines - Android engineer is one:
who has done one or more of the following wrt Android application framework: design, development/customization, bug fixing/sustenance
who has experience in one or more of the following domains
Multimedia
Telephony
Connectivity
Sensor
Security

Platforms-
Mandatory to have worked on one or more of the following;
Android

Technology Standard