Sr Principal Software Engineer

TDS Telecom is a company that provides high-speed internet, TV entertainment, and phone services to communities across the U.S. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will provide end-to-end technical leadership for critical technologies and systems, mentor others on software engineering best practices, and lead large-scale projects that support mission-critical business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide detailed software engineering, architectural planning, and operational readiness for the TDS environment with significant emphasis placed on the individual’s technical leadership skills
• Identify, generate, and manage system-wide projects, which produce implementation, integration, and support direction for new software technologies
• Identify and research integration and best practices to best introduce new software solutions into the TDS technology ecosystem
• Lead research initiatives that will evaluate new software technologies to fill a current gap or future systems need
• Lead large-scale projects that cross functional boundaries and support company-wide mission-critical business operations by deploying new software, applications, systems, and technologies, including activities associated with estimates, schedules, scope, design, development, integration, testing, POC, and implementation
• Create and present business cases or other presentations to appropriate governance and leadership groups to initiate purchases, attain project approval, or to gain approval for other efforts as required
• Initiates activities focused on quality and continuous improvement initiatives across business units within the company
• Develops recommendations for improvements to business process owners in the use and modification of system software
• Uses expert knowledge of industry and competitive marketplace to inform recommendations
• Lead in the definition of technical standards and guidelines governing when and how to use software and technologies that align with TDS Telecom’s strategic plan with a deep understanding of agile practices
• Review software designs to ensure design patterns, security policy, and general best practices are followed to meet established goals for high levels of automation, resiliency, availability, security, and performance

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree (or higher) -OR- 4+ years professional work experience
• 7+ years of software development, integration and/or testing experience
• 5+ years of technical lead experience
• Expert knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, and tools especially related to agile practices
• Expert knowledge of the appropriate IT software technologies and tools
• Proficient knowledge of software testing practices and tools
• Expert knowledge and experience in performing performance and troubleshooting tasks within a large-scale custom development and SaaS environment
• Extensive knowledge of IT processes and standards and the ability to consistently follow and enforce their use in all work
• Knowledge of problem-solving techniques and tools
• Knowledge of business analysis practices and business process modeling
• Knowledge of networking, routing, and protocols
• Knowledge of reporting, analysis, monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Knowledge of quality management and quality improvement practices
• Knowledge of techniques to establish business relationships with outside vendors
• Ability to make timely decisions in a fast-paced agile environment
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and organizes time
• Excellent written, presentation and verbal communication skills, to interface with personnel at all levels in the organization, and to interact with suppliers
• Excellent project management skills (organization, leadership, etc.)
• Ability to understand a business need and provide software engineering requirements
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct the testing and execution of incident response and recovery
• Ability to travel as needed for company business and professional development