Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineer Principal within PNC’s C&IB organization. You will be based in Dallas, TX or Pittsburgh, PA. The position is primarily based in a PNC location. Responsibilities require time in the office or in the field on a regular basis. Some responsibilities may be performed remotely, at the manager’s discretion.

The Full stack developer will modernize the Loan origination system and will be critical in developing workflows that will lead to operational efficiency and cost reduction for the bank.

Candidate preferred industry background: Banking and Finance

Candidate Technical and skills profile:

The Principal Engineer partners with key stakeholders across the organization in developing platform technical roadmap and strategies. This individual acts as a technical lead to guide the creation and lifecycle of software platform architecture. Produces architectural block diagrams and high-level designs, delivers architectural design to development staff provides answers to customer inquiries concerning system software and applications, and interfaces with third party software vendors. The Principal Engineer relies upon wide-ranging experience, using professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

This role will be specifically responsible for Microservices and is completely hands on. The Microservices developer will lead and develop scalable applications. They will oversee architectural decisions, mentor, and ensure system performance and security.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Technical experience in modular software application architecture development
• Develop software and systems platform architecture.
• Work with business stakeholders to gather requirements for platform specific system functional specifications.
• The design and development of high-level product specification with attention to system integration and feasibility.
• Lead the initial architecture of major sub systems, defining the high-level platform design and reference technologies to be used.
• Oversee progress of development teams to ensure consistency with initial design.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers.
• Ensure software meets requirements of quality, security, modularity, and extensibility.
• Coaching and mentoring teams on design practices and helping to resolve issues.
• Lead technical exchange meetings with program engineers, other contractors, and customers.
• Create requirements definition and analysis for new software frameworks.
• Develop documentation of system use cases for software architecture.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience in a related field
• Multiple years of experience working in a similar role.
In addition to the basic requirements, this individual should possess the following:
• Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Microservices architecture patterns and best practices using Java , SpringBoot , and Graph QL
• BPM experiences using Flowable.
• Experience with modern observability tools and practices (Dynatrace, ELK)
• API gateway and service mesh technologies
• Event-driven architecture experience using Kafka.
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Modern security architecture patterns (Transmit, OAuth 2.0, OIDC)
• Architecture & Design:
o Domain-Driven Design (DDD) experience
o Experience with distributed systems patterns.
o Data architecture expertise (both SQL and NoSQL)
o System resilience and fault tolerance patterns
o Performance optimization and scalability expertise
o Experience with architectural decision records (ADRs)
• Modern Development Practices:
o DevOps and SRE principles
o Agile/Scrum methodologies
o Experience with modern version control workflows.

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