Sr Principal Software Engineer - 90387009 - Wilmington

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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 incl