Position Summary Statement:

The Principal of Application Development serves as a technical expert in a specific area of Application Services, focusing on providing expertise, guidance, and support in high-expertise areas.

This role leads all development activities and coordinates with other cross-functional teams to ensure delivery.

Detailed Responsibilities/Duties:

• Collaborate with global business stakeholders (product, marketing, vendor teams) to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into scalable, maintainable, and high-performance Java-based
• solutions.
• Design and implement end-to-end application architectures, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business goals.
• Lead the development of complex modules and integrations, ensuring code quality, performance, and security.
• Provide expert-level technical guidance to development teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers, conducting code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Partner with enterprise architects and engineering leadership to evaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Contribute to long-term architectural vision and roadmap planning, ensuring systems are resilient, scalable, and adaptable to change.
• Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, observability, and performance through proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Skills Required:

Core Technical Expertise

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills with a deep understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and modern application development paradigms.
• Proficiency in Java and related technologies (e.g., Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate), with experience in full-stack development being a plus.
• Experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB preferred), including ORM frameworks.
• Advanced hands-on experience designing and deploying microservices architectures, focusing on resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with API-first development, including RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, and GraphQL.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Practical experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (GCP preferred).
• Knowledge of cloud-native development, including containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM templates).
• Understanding of cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and secure coding standards.

Integration & Event-Driven Architecture

• Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of data integration patterns, data contracts, and system interoperability.

DevOps & Operational Excellence

• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic) for monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Proven ability to build and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant, and enterprise-scale systems.

Soft Skills & Collaboration

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Certificates / Training:

• Required: Certifications demonstrating industry recognition for the area of expertise

Experience:

• 6+ years' experience as a software engineer is a must.
• 4+ Years' experience in design & development of end-to-end complex applications (Architect)
• Experience as a Team Lead, providing mentoring to multicultural teams, is essential.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent