Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to implement engineering best practices for high-quality product deployment. The role involves leading design and development efforts, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring alignment with the company's architectural roadmap and product development strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategic direction of the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications
• Performs and leads the detail technical design, debugging, coding, code review and testing of new applications as well as enhancements of existing applications
• Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis
• Experience building cloud ready applications
• Design and implement software application from both a code point of view and a deployment point of view
• Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools
• Estimate the effort required to develop, test and deploy software applications
• Learn and fully understand business domains and functions
• Participates in collaborative meetings with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate both short and long term activities between business areas
• Ensures that product engineering remains consistent with the company's architectural roadmap and product development strategy while improving the performance of existing software
• Articulate the trade-offs, benefits and risks of proposed architecture and design solutions
• Researches, analyzes, and implements best-practice engineering methodologies and processes for products
• Provides technical guidance to development teams and oversee the technical aspects of the project
• Provide necessary guidance to the teams related to quality engineering (Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Test automation, performance testing, building quality in from the beginning, and test data management)
• Develop and implement application on proposed architecture, overseeing issues such as migration
• Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team
• Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best
• Mentors more junior and senior engineers in-person or via code reviews and assists in problem solving
• Provide mentorship, administrative oversight, evaluations, and personal development of junior staff
• Assist the application/solution architect in the architectural vision and design process
• Assist and triage production issues and propose fixes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
• 10 years' Experience in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and ensures adherence to quality and delivery management systems
• Works closely with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Value Stream Managers to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project
• Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS)
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers' best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of test-first practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework
• Experience with deploying a global application including deployment and configuration management
• Ensure code quality standards, deployment methodologies and practices
• Knowledge of code deployment architecture and methodology
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships