Principal Engineer-Java Business Process Mode

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What you’ll be doing...

In the role of the Principal Engineer, Software Development you will lead all aspects of application development across multiple customer facing channels within the Value IT organization, with responsibility for managing multiple technical teams consisting of software engineering functions for new feature development and system maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with enterprise architects and technology teams to build and validate technology Proof of Concepts for enterprise production selection and implementation of all Value propositions and Core capabilities for Value Heritage Brands.

• Providing thought leadership and guidance to establish best engineering practices, methods, standards, SDLC through solid design decisions, processes, and tools.

• Leading the development of software features and functionalities that directly align with and enhance the company's core value proposition to customers, ensuring the software effectively communicates its unique benefits and selling points to the target market. 

• Working closely with product management and business stakeholders to identify key customer needs and translate them into software features that deliver significant value.

• Collaborating with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to effectively communicate the value proposition to potential and existing customers.

• Spearheading the strategic development and implementation of an open digital architecture, emphasizing API-first design principles. Leverage your expertise in Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), domain-driven design, and resiliency to guide the design and hands-on development of middle-tier systems, ensuring scalability, observability, and adherence to industry best practices.

• Being accountable to build resilient and scalable architecture, driving innovation, cost efficiency and for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.

• Attaining a measurable impact on the work of teams across the company by using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions and provide strategically sound technology guidance.

• Creating system design documentation, method of procedures, and executive briefings. Presenting cohesive but easily understandable design walkthroughs by researching and evaluating new technologies and translating business objectives and strategies into plans.

• Serving as Senior Solutions Architect/Technical leader for large-medium size teams, building l solutions that focus on context and CX excellence.

• Creating an engineering culture with an exceedingly high bar for quality, ownership and bias for action while enabling and guiding experienced developers to develop high quality software within a metrics driven Agile practice.

• Serving as a trusted partner for senior management to determine the best solutions, drive alignment and implement decisions throughout your team.

• Ensuring the health and sustainability of software projects owned by your teams by building and maintaining an engineering roadmap.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience. 

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience developing middle tier technologies and jBPM driven orchestrations for highly scalable, reliable open systems platforms in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot and reactive programming.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Experience in Software Development.

• Experience to design / architect highly scalable applications/platforms.

• Experience utilizing modern API integration frameworks to seamlessly connect partner APIs, affiliate partners, and other third-party systems, fostering efficient data exchange.

• Experience with design patterns, including Gang of Four (GoF), refactoring patterns, microservices patterns, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture (P of EAA), and Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP). Contribute to the design and development of scalable, performant, and resilient large-scale systems, fostering innovation through the effective use of open-source technologies.

• Experience in open source, microservices, and distributed computing technologies, such as REST, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark, and AWS services like DynamoDB, API-Gateway, and Serverless stack.

• Experience on any BPM technology and minimum 3+ years on JBPM 6.x, 7.x ,  IBM Business Automation Manager Open Edition, Red Hat Process Automation Manager.

• Experience in Java 1.8+ and J2EE/Java EE, with extensive experience in Webservices (SOAP and REST), Spring Framework (Core, Boot, Batch, and MVC), Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Camel, Maven, NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.), Relational databases (Postgres, MS SQL Server, etc.), ELK stack, and AWS Cloudwatch.

• Experience with transactional persistence, caching and analytical data storage patterns and technologies.

• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous integrations, including real/near real time event streaming through Kafka or other streaming technologies, for persisting omni session and journey touchpoints.

• Experience with API Gateway (Google Apigee), Product Catalog, Commerce/Pricing Engines and Digital Front-end Web Technologies such as AEM preferred.

• Experience with architectural discussions and influence technology (build vs buy) decisions by partnering with business and technology stakeholders.

• Experience in a diverse technology stack, including Angular, AWS services (Cloudfront, Lambda, ECS), Java Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Gateway, NodeJs, Kinesis, Cassandra, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, EMR, and Spark Jobs. Experience in orchestrating these technologies to drive innovative solutions and meet business objectives.

• Experience with any Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and DevSecOps automation tools

• Experience with development and knowledge of open-source Java Stack (Java, Spring, Postgres, Maven, Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, JUnit, Tomcat, Linux, etc.).

• Experience with full stack application development and cloud implementations with one of the leading providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
   

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefits, short term incentives, 401(k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.If you are hired into a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. work location, the compensation range for this position is between $124,000.00 and $231,000.00 annually based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.