We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer / Architect for our Commercial Growth Labs team, part of our Shared Services organization. You will work with our internal Labs product team, Internal IT Team, and our Line consultants to understand their business needs and strategies to deliver products that help our consultants sell and deliver more effectively and efficiently. These products will have Generative AI components.
We offer exciting career opportunities for people who seek challenges and manage the pace of their own career, while learning and being mentored by talented and seasoned professionals from the product development / consulting industry. You will have an opportunity to interact and work with other software engineers, product managers, data engineers, product designers and executives.
**Responsibilities**:
- Interact with key internal decision makers and product managers to understand vision, gather requirements, and offer relevant insight based on experience in the field
- Lead the development of software solutions across full lifecycle Agile projects - requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and rollout
- Own the flexibility to be creative and have an impact on designs with a "blank slate" development mentality within the general boundaries of client expectations
- Enjoy participating in all aspects of product development including generating ideas, prototyping and building solutions, talking to users, testing outcomes, and integrating learnings into future work
- Want to learn new languages, paradigms, patterns, and frameworks
- Enjoy using your creativity and resourcefulness to tackle unexpected challenges
- Data engineering experience is a plus due to the heavy data needs within our products - data management and integration tools as well as Databricks.
- Connect to new data sources
- Add configurations for data enrichments and rules for data quality
- Create outputs that facilitate reporting, dashboarding, and use within Generative AI products
- Manage and add to data model based on product requirements
- Machine learning selection, development and deployment
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience is a plus
- 7-11+ years of experience in full-stack software development with preferred skills in:
- Ruby on Rails,.NET, C#, Java, Python, etc.
- Entity Framework and various APIs
- JavaScript, React.js, Angular.js, HTML/CSS
- SQL Server, Azure, AWS, open source tools
- Experience with Generative AI tools such as Azure OpenAI preferred
- Experience with Databricks preferred
- Experience with data modeling, governance, pipeline management, performance and optimization
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization tools (e.g., Docker), and/or orchestration systems (e.g., k8s)
- Deep understanding of software engineering concepts (requirements, development methodologies, testing and documentation) and an understanding of how technology applies to business concepts
- Well-versed in object-oriented design and development concepts
- Comfortable working within a fast-paced, collaborative, Agile/Scrum project environment
- Desire and ability to work towards leading a team of ~2-3 software engineers
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills