Senior Consultant - Software Engineering

Responsibilities
What You'll do
In the role of Senior Consultant - Software Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will be owner of, and expert on large sections of our solutions. Consistently able to reduce the complexity of projects, services, and processes in order to get more done with less work. Consult with business partners and make recommendations on future technical trends/directions that encompass multiple systems and teams to meet business strategic initiatives.
Essential Functions
You'll have opportunity to:
Description
% of Time Spent
Delivery
Ownership & expertise on large sections of our solutions / multiple systems - Implementations & support
Building application/systems roadmap – mid to longer term (6-12 months)
Leverage enterprise level methodologies, tools, processes, technologies, design patterns in implementations and advance adoption within business unit
Lead Continuous Improvement practices within area of influence
Identify opportunities for business and technology Innovation aligned with HLIs
Bring automation first mindset to automate business processes
Collaborate with internal and external partners for implementing end to end solutions
35%
Solution Design & Implementation
Lead, design and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in.
Support broad architecture; design and implement large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure.
Quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get to solid resolutions faster. Able to recognize and make trade-offs with respect to the whole system.
Capable of debugging the most complex problems that the team encounters.
Anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them
Practice/Implement Design thinking approach
35%
Strategy
Good understanding of business strategic initiatives; consistently influence decision-making at the business level
Be abreast with latest technology trends
10%
Talent Maturity
Grow the team's ability to own and design all software development layers of a solution, proactively nurture talent of the senior staff in the area
Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
Demonstrate engineering mindset and build it in teams
15%
Other
Contribution to CoPs (Community of Practice)
Networking for sharing and getting cross BU best practices
5%
Qualifications
Who You Are
Education: Graduate – Bachelor’s degree (Engineering) or Masters in Computers or relevant
Experience: 10 to 13 years of IT application development experience
Must Have Skills
Skill Area
Requirement
Expected Proficiency
Programming (Java & TypeScript)
Must Have
Expert in both languages with strong coding, debugging, and production support experience
Solution Design & Architecture
Must Have
Strong HLD/LLD, SOLID principles, 12-Factor Apps, design patterns, and architecture trade-off analysis
Distributed Systems
Must Have
Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS
AWS Cloud Engineering
Must Have
Hands-on experience with S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Fargate, Docker, CloudWatch
NFR Engineering
Must Have
Security, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Observability, and Maintainability by design
DevOps & SRE
Must Have
CI/CD, Blue-Green Deployments, Monitoring, Incident Management, Operational Excellence
Technical Leadership
Must Have
Technical ownership, architecture reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices
Good-to-Have Skills
Skill Area
Expected Proficiency
Streaming Platforms (Kafka/Kinesis)
Hands-on implementation experience
Kubernetes / EKS
Container orchestration and platform operations
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
Automated infrastructure provisioning
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Domain modeling and bounded context design
Event Sourcing & Advanced Patterns
Scalable distributed architecture patterns
AIOps & Advanced Observability
Intelligent monitoring and operational insights
Security Architecture
Threat modeling and secure solution design
GenAI / AI Engineering
AI-enabled application development and automation
Reporting Relationships
This job reports to: Program Manager
Direct Reports: None
Additional Information
As a leader at Principal, you’re responsible for activating our strategy, meeting evolving customer needs, and crafting an inclusive culture. Our leadership expectations serve as a guide to the standards encouraged from all our leaders. Our leaders need to be a positive brand ambassador of our core values and purpose. They need to understand our code of conduct and know the responsibility to comply. They stay respectful of diversity and differences and work towards building inclusive teams and partnerships.

Work arrangement
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