Principal Software Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

NTT DATA North America is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer with Google Cloud Platform Architecture experience to architect and develop innovative products while leading technical initiatives and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• Product Focus & Innovation: Closely collaborate with engineering teams to architect and develop resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, compliant, and highly available products, while specifically researching and prototyping new architectural patterns for AI integration
• Discovery & Technical Roadmap: Contribute toward technical roadmap refinement by researching new technologies, tools, and frameworks for potential adoption, particularly those related to Generative AI and Agentic Architectures
• Standards/Best Practices: Identify, document, communicate, champion, and drive adoption for standards, policies, processes, best practices, and aligned software architecture/software engineering points of view, including new paradigms introduced by AI systems
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and feedback to team members to grow overall team capabilities, especially in emerging technical areas
• Outcome-Oriented: Display ownership of outcomes. Provide trusted expertise for effort estimates and offer alternate approach recommendations along with associated tradeoffs/risks where appropriate
• Industry Knowledge: Keep current on industry standards and bring insights back to the team

Requirements:

• Minimum 10+ years of overall hands-on software engineering experience
• Minimum 6+ years of experience and expertise in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs
• Minimum 1+ year of hands-on experience in Python
• Minimum of 1+ year expertise in microservice architectural patterns and design
• Computer Science Bachelor's degree or degree in related field of study
• Experience with Google Cloud's AI platform services, such as Vertex AI, Agent Builder, and related Generative AI tools (e.g., LangChain)
• Experience with data warehousing and analytics platforms, particularly Google BigQuery
• Experience with healthcare data standards, such as HL7 and FHIR
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, research emerging technologies, and build rapid prototypes/proofs-of-concept
• Expert understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j), SQL, and database/schema design
• Experience with GCP compute platforms, including container orchestration (Google Kubernetes Engine - GKE) and serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
• Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g., Rabbit, GCP Pub/Sub)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills