Principal System Engineering

Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll create it.

Role Overview: This is a hands-on role that results in the delivery of an application or service. You will be responsible for translating core architecture for business requirements into the final technical solution, which consists of platform, network, software, cloud, etc. This involves functional, performance, and reliability analysis using engineering models and techniques, primarily through software development across the vertical stack.

Primary Responsibilities:

Review and Validate Technical Specifications

• Critically evaluate architecture and design documents to ensure alignment with business objectives, scalability, and maintainability.

• Question assumptions, dependencies, and edge cases in technical specs.

• Come up with specific NFR s related to Performance, security and compliance standards.

Challenge and Improve Implementation Approaches

• Inspect code and system implementations to validate adherence to specifications, performance expectations, and security standards.

• Offer alternative solutions or optimizations based on best practices and emerging technologies.

Ensure Technical Accuracy and Feasibility

• Verify that proposed solutions are technically sound, feasible at scale, and resilient under stress.

• Assess risks in implementation strategies and raise red flags early in the development lifecycle.

Conduct Design and Code Reviews

• Lead peer design and code reviews with IDP/Amdocs/Digital teams, guiding teams to follow architectural standards, improve quality, and avoid common pitfalls.

• Drive a culture of constructive questioning and continuous improvement.

Drive Consistency Across all Teams

• Ensure uniformity in implementation patterns and technical documentation across teams and projects.

• Promote use of reusable patterns, libraries, and frameworks.

Collaborate with System Architects and Stakeholders

• Act as a bridge between architecture and engineering teams, ensuring that specs are both technically thorough and practically implementable.

Qualifications:

Experience: 8+ years of system engineering experience and architecture. Experience working on large-scale complex systems is essential.

Skills and Expertise:

Microservices Development and Integration:

• Security Frameworks: Apigee, Kong, ABS, 3scale

• Integration SDKs: SpringBoot, Node.js, C++

BriteBill Technologies:

• Backend Development: Java, SpringBoot (REST, MVC, Security), Spring Integration

• Cloud Deployment: Azure (preferred), OpenShift, AKS

• Document Processing: Apache Velocity, Apache FOP

• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

• Event Streaming and Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Databases: MySQL Server, Couchbase, SQL Server

• Frontend Development: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript

• REST API Tools: Postman

• Build and CI/CD Tools: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, NPM

• Scripting and Automation: Unix scripting

• Project Management Tools: Jira

Certification: SAFe Architect certificate.

Education: Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Science, Electrical Engineering, or Math; Developer nanodegree; or equivalent experience.

Our Principal System Engineering, earns between $141,300.00-$237,400.00