Principal Software Engineer-India

This role will be part of a cross-functional team that is responsible for the software design and Architecture, working on AWS\Azure , building frameworks that will need to scale across multiple products.

• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like AWS and Azure
• Communicate with stakeholders to arrive at correct technical solution decision with data points and foresight.
• Gets hands on with design and coding to resolve hard problems or high impact areas that have a long-term impact on a product technology or architecture
• Grow, maintain knowledge , leverage cutting edge IT industry / marketplace technologies and trends to keep product is upto date with latest tech.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure architecture for greater scalability, reliability, security
• Innovate, keep abreast of industry trends and competition grasping new paradigms and languages quickly
• Mentor, guide Software engineers and teams. Involve in hiring process.
• Resolve ambiguous and complex business problems/asks into simple technical systems that can be worked by the team
• Routinely come up with PoCs to evaluate approaches or technology choices to enable or accelerate programmes
• Should be able to influence build vs buy decisions able to pick and deprecate creaking software/applications, lead significant refactoring, make the right trade-offs influences the roadmap. Produce simple solutions to complex problems.
• Technically resolve ambiguous and complex business problems/asks into simple systems that can be worked by the team and enable Software Engineers to solve slices of the problem.

• Candidate should have 10+ years of total experience in the industry with 5+ years’ experience as a Software Developer with min of 2 years in designing and architecting solution
• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions within short span
• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration using tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness etc.
• Experience to translate user stories, functional requirements into technical design, estimate and develop and release the same.  
• Experience with Agile framework.
• Familiarity with common programming best practices, data patterns, and software design structures
• Familiarity with Unit test frameworks like Junit, Nunit etc.
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external teams.
• Experience with database including relational database design like MSSQL and NoSQL.
• Experience with source control management systems (GitHub) and continuous integration/deployment environments. Understanding of object-oriented application development techniques
• Experience in designing/reviewing design patterns and implementing solutions considering Ui/UX, Performance, security and Scalability.
• Proven experience in handling several aspects of software including, but not limited to performance, scalability, security and testing.
• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of roadmap-
• Good knowledge and experience with security constructs – OpenID, OAuth 2.0, TLS, OWASP guidelines
• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
• Competence to work Independently and able to take and design decision along with appropriate stakeholders
• Competence to work Independently and able understand , suggest changes based on the cost implications of the cloud infrastructure
• Effective communication of ideas and information, both verbally and design documents where necessary
• Experience in developing microservices and containerized application. Experience in working on distributed systems and app dev targeting serverless architecture
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization 

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• Generous Annual Leave – 20 days, plus public holidays, with the possibility to buy additional days
• Life Insurance – 3x times annual salary
• 65% Internal Mobility – Committed to the development & growth of our people
• Exposure to the latest technologies

Advanced is one UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to power the world of work and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.

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