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Principal System Engineer

Casey's

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Nov 2025

About the role

Design Solutions:
- Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
- Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions, while fully understanding system inter-dependencies and limitations. Evaluate system options, risk, cost versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals. Make buy vs. build recommendations within enterprise architecture standards and guidance.
- Identify best sources of data and data integration solutions, working with data architects to ensure optimal software design and architecture.
- Lead or participate in the technical evaluation of vendor services and platforms, and ongoing management of implemented vendor solutions.
Deliver Solutions:
- Lead application technical component design and development. Develop technical specifications, reusable components and/or frameworks for application teams utilizing common and domain specific design patterns where appropriate.
- Serve as technical subject matter expert for development of new code or education on reusable components and services. Participate in hands-on development and help resolve complex issues and incidents.
Drive Solution Quality:
- Define solution quality standards and procedures. Lead software inspections and quality reviews. Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development and integration.
- Contribute to enterprise application architecture processes, principles, policies, and standards definition.
Team Development:
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Provides technical team leadership, coaching, and mentoring to senior and junior team members to increase core systems knowledge, coding standards and development best practices.
Requirements and Planning.
- Reviews and provides input to the requirements for the implementation of business solutions.
- Participates in the planning process for near-term project/agile delivery and the future roadmap/direction of business and technology product domains.
Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.

#LI-Hybrid Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in related technical/business areas and ten years of systems analysis and programming experience in software architecture and/or application development and support work; or equivalent work experience.
- May substitute a higher level of degree in related technical/business area and less work experience.
A broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and software architecture standards.
Advanced levels of programming techniques and knowledge of distributed system architectures, and object-oriented design.
Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.