Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Since H-E-B Digital Technology's inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital-we're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience.The Principal Software Engineer acts as Principal / Consultant with recognized mastery (internal and external) within their function or discipline. Most of their time is spent implementing solutions that impact the critical future direction of the organization. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead, coach, and mentor engineers and teams, provide technical direction and priorities, identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and propose paths forward to drive outcomes. You'll make recommendations for overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance. Work is subject to executive level review at major milestones. May coach, direct the work, or review the work of others.Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.Do you have a:HEART FOR PEOPLE... skills to serve as technical authority and coordinate work for a group of engineers?HEAD FOR BUSINESS... expertise to make sound, mature technical judgments that result in significant impact?PASSION FOR RESULTS... drive to deliver sweeping technical initiatives?What is your background?- Bachelors' degree or equivalent experience or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience- 12+ years of experience in software development- Expert in in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.- Expert knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns.- Ability to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential.- Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)- Extensive experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results.- Expert knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture and design patterns- Expert understanding of the full SDLC and frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.).

- Expertise in MDM (master data management) and or PIM (Product Information Management)

- Able to communicate with technical and non-technical peers and stakeholdersWhat is the work?- Leads the application of existing principles and guides development of new ideas- Provides unprecedented or future solutions that affect several departments- Requires direct communication with executive leadership on matters of strategic importance- Develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operations plans that will have significant impact on the achievement of functional results- Creates formal networks with key decision makers and widely recognized as expert and thought leader by both internal and external community - Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments- 'Evangelizes' new ideas / technologies / solutions to gain acceptance from a wide range of audiencesArea of Focus

- Expertise in modernizing master (core) data domains and designing scalable, interoperable data architectures for complex legacy systems.

- Experience in the retail space, driving digital transformation and optimizing data quality management.

- Expected to modernize data domains and design scalable, interoperable data architectures for complex legacy systems focusing on the product (item) domain

- Research, inform, propose, and decide on build versus buy decisions

- Explore, research, and build protypes taking advantage of the latest AI capabilities

- Contributes regularly to high impact, boundary crossing efforts throughout H-E-B as needed- Broad visibility into the wider organization and participates where needed without prompting- Ability to move between organizations and projects effectively- Participates in efforts, both strategic and technical, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to remove roadblocks- Participates in executive leadership level discussions and initiatives, including VP and aboveArchitecture, Coding & Testing- Ability to jump into any project, with any language or competency ar