Senior Consultant - Software Engineering

Responsibilities

What Youll 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

Youll 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 teams 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 – Bachelors 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, youre 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.