Principal Software Engineering

Job Description:

Are you ready to shape the future of connectivity and revolutionize how the world communicates? At AT&T, our Consumer Technology Experience (CTX) team is at the forefront of delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions that enhance and simplify customer experiences. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you embark on a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll create it.

Are you an experienced software engineer looking to take your career to the next level? Join our team as a Principal Level Software Engineer and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our technology solutions. This role requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in software development and offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that drive our business forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborative Requirements Gathering: Work closely with stakeholders to gather and review software requirements and user stories, provide accurate estimates, and create detailed software design specifications. Collaborate with engineers and architects to assess and test hardware and software interactions.

• Development Methodology Execution: Apply various programming languages to execute specific development methodologies. Create and execute automated test plans and strategies based on business requirements. Collaborate with engineers, architects, and clients to validate test environments, data, and results.

• Testing and Validation: Design and implement code fixes, validate outcomes against expected results, and produce comprehensive reporting. Responsibilities may also include dynamic application security testing, interface testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and user acceptance testing.

• Support and Deployment: Provide support for applications, solve configuration and environment issues, and assist in the software deployment process.

Job Contribution:

• Serve as an expert-level technical professional and advisor on technical knowledge and AT&T technologies.

• Software Development: Design, code, test, debug, and document new and existing components to ensure that software meets business, quality, and operational needs.

• Technical Direction: Align development teams to a shared technical direction and partner with those teams to elaborate on the solution and its interfaces.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with portfolio stakeholders, solution, and enterprise architects to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of enablers.

• High-Quality Code: Build high-quality code following unit testing and test-driven development practices.

• Non-Functional Requirements: Establish critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) at the solution level and participate in defining additional requirements.

• Code Reviews and Mentorship: Drive and participate in code and document reviews, mentoring the team in best practices.

• Technical Issue Resolution: Collaborate with peer organizations, DevOps, and support organizations to address technical issues and provide guidance.

• Business Needs Translation: Interpret and translate business needs into technical requirements and accurate estimates.

• Tool and Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance.

• Problem Troubleshooting: Work with the team to troubleshoot code-level problems quickly and efficiently.

• Technical Expertise Application: Apply deep technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems.

• Focus on Scalability and Security: Ensure the scalability, security, and