Principal Full Stack Engineer - Midtown, NY
About The Position
Our client is a top-tier strategy and management consulting firm that competes with McKinsey, BCG, and Bain for C-suite work. This role is within their internal platform and product group, responsible for building and running over 30 products used by consultants. The engineers' customers are the firm's senior partners, and high reliability is expected. The product portfolio includes legacy systems needing modernization, products incorporating AI features and tooling, and new products based on emerging AI use cases. This is a "get in early" opportunity, as the firm is hiring Principal engineers first to build teams around them. The role emphasizes product ownership, with engineers expected to manage and run products rather than just respond to tickets. Approximately 70-80% of the time will be spent coding, with the remainder dedicated to architecture and tech leadership. The role involves mentoring 5-7 senior engineers and close collaboration with product managers. Documentation may be sparse, and engineers are expected to contribute to its improvement. The technology stack includes React, C#, and Python within a Microsoft/Azure environment. Infrastructure management is handled by a separate team. Daily use of AI tools is expected.
Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years working as a Software Engineer, Software Architect, or similarly technical field.
- Demonstrated expertise in software frameworks, technologies, and development.
- A proven track record of collaborating on technical projects with cross-functional teams.
- Deep experience in hands-on development work to stand up an architecture and drive the adoption within an organization.
- Experience working in accordance with DevSecOps principles, and familiarity with industry deployment best practices using CI/CD tools and IaC (Infrastructure as Code).
- Proven engineering leadership skills, including leading engineering teams and inspiring and motivating cross-functional teams towards a common goal.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to craft innovative solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders and influence decision-making; adept at translating complex technical details to diverse audiences.
- Project management skills, including experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.
Responsibilities
- Drive and evangelize architecture for new and existing platforms and applications.
- Accountable for delivering thought leadership, strategic direction, and consulting, standards, and technology guidance with the goal in achieving business objectives.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance new architectures for both existing business solutions and cutting-edge innovation solutions.
- Leads and participates in the development of architecture strategies, frameworks and architecture governance processes.
- Establishes long-term software architecture direction to ensure sound investment decisions.
- Foster close communication with key stakeholders and product owners to improve transparency regarding engineering costs and the development of service level agreements (SLAs).
- Accelerate the standardization of engineering processes, software libraries, reusable components within the Product Innovation Model across the firm.
- Develop, train, and drive adoption of modern software engineering principles, guidelines, processes, re-usable tools, and technologies to maximize efficiency and accelerate productivity for P&P engineers.
- Ensure alignment, consistency, and uniformity across the firm to help streamline workflows and procedures for product innovation.
- Enhance engineering processes with a focus on efficiency, collaboration, and scalability across the P&P engineering organization.
- Advance the maturity of the engineering guild through technical leadership through best practices and adoption of newer technologies.
- Provide mentorship, create or identify engineering training programs and continuous learning opportunities for all P&P engineers.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to pinpoint opportunities for technological advancements and creative solutions.
- Collaborate with leaders and key stakeholders and continue to contribute expertise on overall technical feasibility, technology selection, implementation approach, and architecture of existing and new solutions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
