Principal Engineer

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Ability to work with key stakeholders across Tech, Ops, and Business
• Drive team on technical implementations of MTS configurations and respective testing
• Identify and understand vendor engagement processes (ACI, Pelican) and Internal Stakeholder Engagement

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Experience with Payments systems (US) – ACH, and/or Wires strongly preferred
• Strong experience in ACI MTS Product configurations such as Entia setup, Remote records, routing rules and line configuration
• Hands on experience on MTS technology to configure Endpoint & Bank Adapter setup, Processing & routing rules configurations using proprietary tools Config Builder and Platform Manager
• Possess in-depth knowledge of MTS System architecture and Key components (MTS, UPF, STP, RGW, MTS-MQs, ENTIA)
• comprehensive understanding of Wires connectivity (FED, CHIPS, SWIFT) , Straight Through processing (STP – ACE Pelican) & Production configurations
• Good understanding on High-level message flows within Global and US Domestic Money movement systems
• Good experience on ACI APSF application setup and configurations automation on WebSphere Application servers using Jython/Python, Unix shell scripting
• Well versed with payment domain and different clearing houses including FED, Chips, CHAPS, Target, and Swift network
• Desirable to have Experience with ISO20022 Implementation
• Hands-on experience working with Microservices, J2EE architecture
• Strong understanding of middleware and application server concepts like Integration, Transactions and XA transaction, Security, Connection pooling, Load balancing and Messaging
• clustered server environment and familiar with system performance related tasks
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience in conducting NFR testing to evaluate application Recovery Time Objective [RTO] , Recover Point-in Objective [RPO]
• Experience in collaborate, conduct, and support various testing initiatives such as System Testing, UAT, Performance
• Ability to manage effectively in virtual environment where key team members and partners are in various time zones and locations
• Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and implement change
• 4+ years of JMS (Java Message Service) experience
• 4+ years of IBM MQ experience
• 4+ years of Kafka Platform experience, Confluent Platform experience, or a combination of both
• 3+ years of Oracle RDBMS experience
• 3+ years of experience with secure DevOps and deployment automation to cloud environments
• 3+ years of experience with Test Automation

Experience with ISO20022 Implementation