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

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• Ability to analyze large-scale datasets and translate analytical requirements into scalable system designs
• Experience in building distributed data pipelines using Apache Beam (or Flink / Spark), including streaming and batch workflows
• Knowledge on ElasticSearch architecture, index design, query optimization, and analytics use cases
• Proven expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, fault tolerance, backpressure handling, and data consistency trade-offs
• Experience designing and governing end-to-end analytics architectures from ingestion through visualization
• Hands-on expertise of Kubernetes for deploying and operating data pipelines, and microservices
• Experience building and maintaining microservices using Spring Boot, with well-defined APIs and service contracts
• Ability to define and enforce engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices across teams
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, and operability, including monitoring, alerting, and production incident management
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, and influencing cross-team technical direction.