Principal Engineer, VP

Role Description

• A Principal Engineer is a senior-level position within the engineering team, concentrating on strategic technical leadership, overseeing delivery, and providing guidance to junior engineers.
• This role entails steering the technical direction, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring that engineering initiatives are aligned with the broader objectives of DWS.

Your key responsibilities

• Understands the business context along with Technical requirements.
• A very good understanding in terms of Technical, and project management skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication with an effective articulation of the problem to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to balance the overall project priorities.
• Understands the critical path for delivery of the feature/project and able to gain consensus with all the stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills - ability to collaborate with BA, Architects, QA, DevOps and other work streams.
• Understands the timeline, quality and cost implications for a given project delivery.
• Strong people manager- able to guide and mentor a team of engineers. Motivates them and ensure the career development and progression paths for the associated members.
• Able to identify right talent and augment the team with right set of skills and expertise.

Your skills and experience

• Solid understanding of the Architecture and Design principles.
• Ability to propose a solution and present it in wider forums like TDA, Design council and program/governance board.
• Enforce the best practices and guidelines at projects level and communicate the deviations to the respective team leads and ensure adherence.
• Code reviews - provide guidance to avoid hacks, code smells etc.
• Well versed with the Enterprise Architecture and promotes team to adopt the patterns and implementation in building the solutions for business use cases.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
• Proficient in any UI framework/library (REACT/ANGULAR/VUE/NEXT)
• Proficient in TypeScript and Node JS
• Well versed with commonly used Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understanding of REST based Architecture and concepts
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Principles.
• Understanding of cross-browser, mobile first development
• Unit Testing - writing unit/e2e tests.
• Awareness of the SDLC process,
  • Version control systems,
  • Build Tooling, Artifactory,Deployments, Containers (Docker / Kubernetes)
  • Cloud Fundamentals