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SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
The Senior Principal Software Engineer is responsible for design, development and support of multiple applications and platforms. It is a leadership position that is well-versed practitioner of software engineering best practices and ensures software is developed with high quality.
Daily responsibilities may include design and development, configuration and/or integrations; reviewing development progress, ensuring any issues are resolved quickly, working with project manages, IT service owners and IT service offering leads to keep all parties formally updated and aware of development underway, as well as issue resolution status.
The Senior Principal Software Engineer meets regularly with stakeholders to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. The Senior Principal Software Engineer confirms solutions alignment with business goals, IT strategies, as well as compliance with the organization’s architectural standards.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provides technical Subject Matter Expertise (SME), while managing across diverse teams, owns deliverables, manages to deadlines, and communicates across teams to achieve goals.
- Owns and leads the software development approach as an engineering exercise; owns low-level design solution; in case of few alternatives drives to the best solution up to implementation to answer Amtrak needs.
- Confirms requirements and the detailed design are clear, follows a documented development methodology, and makes sure a unit testing regimen is followed to deliver code per designs.
- Creates and updates documentation as necessary to ensure architectures, designs, and other descriptions are up to date and describes the as-deployed system.
- Leads the development planning process with customers, IT business analysts, architects and team members.
- Works with architecture and technology to codify development tools, code reusability standards, improve design documents.
- Develops design specifications and sizing estimates for technical requirements.
- Confirms all development work is in harmony with all standards as well as ensuring the overall implementation is connected to Amtrak's technology strategies.
- Adheres to quality standards and procedures. Reviews modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with application architecture standards and SLAs. May assist in defining development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development/integration.
- Proactively recommends and provides ongoing maintenance of applications.
- Assists in the development of user guides and training documentation.
- Provides technical guidance or system process expertise.
- Develops reports and presentations for senior management, as needed.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, software engineering or business management plus 12+ years relevant experience; or 15+ years of relevant work experience in Subject Matter Expert capacity required to satisfy education and experience requirements.
- Extensive experience programming and/or systems analysis experience with a displayed mastery of multiple program languages.
- Can adapt programming methodologies of the team to better fit the project scope and unique needs that may arise.
- Have a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards.
- Can focus on business goals while ensuring development is completed on time.
- Ability to work well under deadlines and in a flexible environment.
- Must have experience/in-depth knowledge of business operations and systems requirements processes including ability to measure short- and long-term business goals.
- Must possess the ability to utilize adaptable communication skills to effectively translate between technical and business language.
- Must possess the skill to educate project team members on business unit goals and objectives and educate the business on the value of information technology.
MIMINUM KSA (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
- Deep General Web, Cloud & Mobility Background. Very strong knowledge of core Internet (HTTP, Mail, REST, DB, Data Modeling etc.)
- Very strong documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to articulate complex architectures in completeness and detail that demonstrate a mastery of the subject.
- Highly proficient knowledge of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and the experience with programming languages is required.
- Extremely proficient in frontend (Web) or backend (Server) or mobile application development or cloud platform services.
- Expert Proficiency in the following technologies and methods:
- Hands on development experience designing, developing with AWS technologies like S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, EC2, Data Pipeline, CloudWatch, CodeCommit and CloudFormation.
- Deep technical expertise in Azure B2C platform. Hand on experience using B2C user flows, custom policies for enablement of identity tasks like sign up, sign in, and profile editing.
- Strong hands-on development experience in Angular, Java, J2EE, Spring, REST APIs and related server-side technologies.
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud development - Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB/Aurora, Redshift, NodeJs etc.
- Expertise in continuous integration and continuous delivery, with tools like Git, Jenkins & JIRA in an agile scrum environment
- Broad level of understanding of information systems and application architecture standards.
- Extensive experience with Agile methodologies and techniques including SCRUM and SAFE frameworks.
- Can focus on business goals while ensuring development is completed on time.
- Recognized as a trusted adviser, with a track record of creating successful technology solutions that support the organization’s strategic vision and goals.
- Ability to work well under deadlines and in a flexible environment.
- Must have experience/in‐depth knowledge of business operations and systems requirements processes including ability to measure short‐ and long‐term business goals.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, software engineering or business management plus 12+ years relevant experience; or 15+ years of relevant work experience in Subject Matter Expert capacity required to satisfy education and experience requirements.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Excellent communication skills - both oral and written
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Work is performed in an office environment.
- May require travel up to 10%
- Requires on‐call status.
- After hours and periodic shift work may occasionally be required
- Willingness to support applications 24 x 7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
- Additional duties as assigned
COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
The salary/hourly range is $149,400 - $215,100. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.
Requisition ID:163742
Posting Location(s):Delaware
Work Arrangement:05-Hybrid Monthly Click here for more information about work arrangements at Amtrak.
Job Family/Function:Engineering
Relocation Offered:No
Travel Requirements:Up to 25%
You power our progress through your performance.
We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.
Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.
Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.
In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.
In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.
Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.
