Principal Software Engineer

Aflac•Columbus, GA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Software Engineer will lead software development initiatives from conception to deployment, defining architectural guidelines and best practices. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to align software solutions with business objectives, introducing and training teams on advanced programming languages and tools, and ensuring cloud readiness and optimal performance of applications. The Principal Software Engineer will also provide technical leadership and mentoring to technical and project teams at the business function level, lead project teams in requirement analysis and estimation, and collaborate with Architects and Senior Infrastructure Technical staff to evaluate technology advancements. Responsibilities include supporting the implementation and testing of cross-functional systems, providing continuous support to clients, proactively monitoring projects and production applications for improvements, handling unresolved production support issues, and providing design recommendations and developing complex integration solutions. The role also involves facilitating testing efforts, developing new cross-functional software systems, and supporting the ongoing maintenance of mainframe and/or client server applications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical discipline
7 years of progressive experience in business analyst or development positions performing the following: Completion of full software development cycle from requirements gathering to implementation.
Working in an Agile development environment.
Technical writing.
Troubleshooting/problem-solving skills in a software environment
Applying strong analytical and product management skills, including interpreting customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements.
Strong SQL knowledge and working with complex database schemas and table structures.
Utilizing experience with: MySQL, Jira, VersionOne, Confluence, Jenkins, SharePoint, SDLC methodologies, JSON, XML, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Angular, Visio, and Microsoft Project.
In the alternative, employer will accept Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical discipline plus 5 years of experience in business analyst or development positions performing the aforementioned.
Must also have 3 years of experience with: Insurance products, plans, pricing and terminology
Everwell platform and its product definition structure
Applying strong analytical and product-management skills.

Responsibilities

Define architectural guidelines and best practices by leading software development initiatives from conception to deployment.
Collaborate with stakeholders to align software solutions with business objectives.
Introduce and train teams in advanced programming languages and tools.
Ensure cloud readiness and optimal performance of all applications.
Lead and mentor technical and project team members at the business function level.
Lead the project team in analyzing the requirements and providing accurate and detailed estimates for the designing, building, testing and deployment phases of the project.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to various technical teams.
Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Senior Infrastructure Technical staff to evaluate and recommend technology advancements and business solutions for assigned projects and applications.
Support the implementation and testing of cross-functional systems including ensuring system meets the needs of client and business; providing continuous support to internal and external clients who are experiencing problems with server hardware, operating systems, core infrastructure applications and related utilities, maintaining mainframe operating systems or major subsystems, and associated software and hardware products; and handling unresolved support issues across multiple areas of expertise.
Proactively monitor projects and/or existing production applications and core infrastructure by looking for ways to improve the applications and its availability.
Handle unresolved production support issues across multiple areas of expertise; analyzes the current architecture.
Provide design recommendations, develop application and custom integration solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces; write complex design specifications.
Provides leadership to support ongoing maintenance of mainframe and/or client server applications or tools, depending upon previous involvement with projects.
Facilitate and ensure on-time completion of performance, load, functional and other categories of testing and application vulnerability testing efforts and resolution of issues; develop new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes.