Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform

Credit Acceptance is an award-winning company recognized for its workplace culture and success in the used car finance industry. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical and architectural leadership within the data engineering organization, focusing on technology and architecture decisions to ensure successful project deliveries.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical thought leadership that connects and aligns business strategy with success
• Champion key technology and architecture decision across the data portfolio for current and future success
• Hands on and role model how engineers should think and work, foster a strong engineering culture and discipline including “show and tell”
• Collaborate both with the data team and cross engineering on technology and architecture strategy and decision
• Exemplify technical innovation and contribute to critical system design, implementation and operation success
• Formulate technology and architecture decision frameworks that embed engineering disciplines
• Become an expert in the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business outcomes
• Work with the engineering leadership team to develop and execute on the company’s technical and business strategy
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify the impact of a change across multiple applications and systems
• Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build and maintain best in class software systems
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 15 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of data technology and architecture
• Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building modern data platform, product and solutions
• Expert understanding and use of modern data technology end 2 end including but not limited to source system, data integration, data acquisition, data ingestion, data transformation, data aggregation, data governance, business intelligence, data warehouse, data lake, NoSQL, object storage, streaming etc
• Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of software engineering best practices
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
• Extensive experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross functional team members and coach and mentor experienced team members
• In-depth experience with building big data real time production system that delivers business success
• Well versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile
• Financial services or FinTech industry experience