Software Engineer Principal

Grainger Businesses • Allouez, WI

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About The Position

The Software Engineer Principal acts as a domain expert and technical strategist. This role is responsible for solving the most complex engineering challenges, driving architectural decisions, and influencing technical direction across the organization. The Software Engineer Principal partners with cross-functional teams, mentors engineers at all levels, and ensures that technology solutions align with business strategy and long-term scalability.

Requirements

• Domain expert and technical strategist
• Solve complex engineering challenges
• Drive architectural decisions
• Influence technical direction
• Partner with cross-functional teams
• Mentor engineers
• Ensure technology solutions align with business strategy and long-term scalability
• Develop scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise software systems
• Define and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and software development life cycle processes
• Align technical solutions with business objectives
• Provide strategic input on system improvements
• Ensure system security, performance, and compliance
• Conduct audits, manage licensing, and meet regulatory requirements
• Drive innovation and technology adoption
• Conduct research, prototyping, and hardware/software evaluations
• Oversee database design and optimization
• Ensure database reliability and adherence to best practices
• Guide software engineering team members
• Foster technical growth
• Provide accurate development estimates
• Maintain code quality and operational excellence
• Conduct code reviews
• Implement automated testing
• Utilize continuous integration

Responsibilities

• Leads architecture and development of scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise software systems.
• Defines and enforces engineering standards, best practices, and software development life cycle processes.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives and provides strategic input on system improvements.
• Ensures system security, performance, and compliance, including audits, licensing, and regulatory requirements.
• Drives innovation and technology adoption through research, prototyping, and hardware/software evaluations.
• Oversees database design and optimization, ensuring reliability and adherence to best practices.
• Mentors and guides software engineering team members, fostering technical growth and accurate development estimates.
• Maintains code quality and operational excellence through review, automated testing, and continuous integration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed