Software Engineering Principal

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a Software Engineering Principal to provide strategic technical vision and leadership for their commercial portfolio. The role involves defining long-term architectural roadmaps, advising on technical solutions, and mentoring less senior team members while ensuring seamless integration with the enterprise ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as an expert technical leader across multiple domains and/or value streams to advise and recommend solutions to technical design problems
• Provide the strategic technical vision and leadership for the commercial portfolio
• Serve as the expert resource for this domain, bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution
• Define a long-term architectural roadmap that optimizes for the needs of your domain and ensures seamless integration with the broader enterprise ecosystem
• Develop prototypes and solutions leveraging a diverse range of technology
• Advise in the application of modern architectures, principles, methodologies, tools, and systemic processes to support the launch of new business capabilities
• Lead the resolution of highly complex problems
• Mentor development of those in less senior positions
• Define and own the long-term technical roadmap and architectural vision for your assigned business domain
• Architect market leading Databricks solutions on leading Cloud platforms like Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Provide data architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation
• Establish and govern architectural standards, principles, and best practices for your domain, ensuring consistency and quality across all projects
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for data management
• Lead projects within architecture
• Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features
• Participate in design sessions, demos, and prototype sessions, testing and training workshops with business users and other IT associates
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications
• Drive common vision, practices, and capabilities collaborating across teams
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change

Requirements:

• Serve as an expert technical leader across multiple domains and/or value streams to advise and recommend solutions to technical design problems
• Provide the strategic technical vision and leadership for the commercial portfolio
• Serve as the expert resource for this domain, bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution
• Define a long-term architectural roadmap that optimizes for the needs of your domain and ensures seamless integration with the broader enterprise ecosystem
• Develop prototypes and solutions leveraging a diverse range of technology
• Advise in the application of modern architectures, principles, methodologies, tools, and systemic processes to support the launch of new business capabilities
• Lead the resolution of highly complex problems
• Mentor development of those in less senior positions
• Define and own the long-term technical roadmap and architectural vision for your assigned business domain
• Architect market leading Databricks solutions on leading Cloud platforms like Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Provide data architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation
• Establish and govern architectural standards, principles, and best practices for your domain, ensuring consistency and quality across all projects
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for data management
• Lead projects within architecture
• Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features
• Participate in design sessions, demos, and prototype sessions, testing and training workshops with business users and other IT associates
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications
• Drive common vision, practices, and capabilities collaborating across teams
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change
• Leading the team in designing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud-native solutions using Azure services (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, etc.) or Google Cloud Platform
• Solution architecture for big data processing, data pipelines, and real-time analytics using Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics and designing and integrating AI/ML models into cloud-based applications, leveraging Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services
• Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology and lead teams in the implementation of the solution according to the design/architecture
• Experience in project and solution estimation and team structure definition
• Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market/technical conditions and future direction
• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint
• Proven track record of leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes
• Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects
• Ability to elicit requirements and communicate clearly with non-technical individuals, development teams, and other ancillary project members
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once and context switch easily
• Experience with Angular/React/Rechart and AI/ML
• Experience in programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python
• Bachelor's degree, in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field and/or equivalent
• Requires five (5) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment