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Job Summary
The Principal Developer is a distinguished technical leader, responsible for driving innovation, architectural and software development excellence, and strategic software development initiatives across the organization. As the foremost technical expert, they lead the development and optimization of mission critical, strategically focused applications, programs, websites, databases, and/or systems. As a thought leader, they bring deep expertise across multiple functional and technical domains, offering an enterprise-wide perspective on decisions. Leading the software development function within the organization, they mentor and coach professionals at all levels, fostering a culture of growth, technical mastery, and continuous innovation. The Principal Developer is involved in setting the technical vision and strategy for the organization. They work closely with senior leadership to align technology initiatives with business goals. Their expertise is frequently sought in the evaluation and adoption of new technologies and methodologies. They play a key role in ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of the organization's software solutions.
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Leads the design and development of well-integrated, enterprise-level solutions that meet present and future business needs.
- Collaborates with architecture leadership to shape, evolve and champion application architecture standards. Provides architectural guidance to development team that results in team's ability to address key architectural drivers including performance, scalability, maintainability, and security.
- Focused on ensuring the overall technical health and strategic direction of software development initiatives and enterprise products/projects.
- Contributes to a full range of programming tasks including program design, development, debugging, estimating, unit testing, and documentation for a variety of applications, systems, databases, or websites. Provides oversight, guidance and direction for others on these tasks.
- Provides the highest-level technical support for complex issues. Serves as technical escalation point for resolving high-impact challenges and issues. Develops and implements advanced troubleshooting procedures and best practices.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
- Leads forward looking-long-term application development, integration, upgrade and maintenance strategies.
- Leads the selection and evaluation of new vendor software solutions and packages.
- Leads knowledge sharing and shared understanding amongst the development team
- Provides mentoring, training, procedural and technical guidance to professionals at all levels.
- Act as a key technical advisor, contributing to industry discussions, publications, and organizational best practices.
- Plays a key-role in shaping, evolving and championing PulteGroup Development best practices, methods, standards, and processes.
- Identifies and leads change and process improvement efforts within teams and specific technical area of focus.
- Follows secure coding standards and addresses security scan alerts.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Career Level (P5)
Organizational Impact:
- Owns and develops strategic and operational goals for area of expertise.
- Focuses on operational plans with short- to mid-term impact on the organization (e.g., 1– 2 years).
- Directs activities that have significant impact on the achievement of results for the area
- Recommends and implements new products, processes, policies, standards or operating plans in support of area’s strategy and operations.
Leadership & Talent Management:
- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.
- Typically, responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the company, involving large cross-functional teams.
- Technical Leadership: You'll be expected to provide technical guidance and mentorship to other developers, conducting code reviews and enforcing coding standards, helping more junior developers improve their skills in Sitecore development and best practices.
- Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: They act as the go-to person for complex technical challenges, making informed decisions that impact the project's direction and success.
- Strategic Planning: A principal developer needs to think beyond the immediate project, considering how the solution fits into the client's long-term digital strategy and business goals.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Requires mastery level knowledge of level area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
- May have deep knowledge of project and program management.
- Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8-10 years of prior relevant experience.
- Modern Cloud Hosting and Operations: Familiarity with cloud hosting platforms like Vercel or Netlify and a solid understanding of modern DevSecOps and SRE practices.
- Composable Cloud DXP: Solid understanding of Composable DXP (Digital Experience Platform) strategy, including MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless), is highly valued.
- Sitecore Expertise: You must have extensive, hands-on experience with Sitecore’s SaaS product, Sitecore XM Cloud, and a strong understanding of its architecture, features, and headless development capabilities using Sitecore JSS.
- Modern Front-End Development: Proficiency in modern web development is crucial. This includes strong skills in modern front-end frameworks like Next.js and React, as well as core technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- AI Coding Assistants: deep expertise with modern AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor, leveraging them to accelerate development and improve code quality.
Required Skills
- Technology skillset varies by team
Required Licensing, Registration and/or Certifications
Physical Requirements:
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Pulte Homes of Minnesota is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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