Principal Engineer

Job Description - Principal Engineer

• Analyze requirements and propose technical solutions in delivering projects within expected parameters of cost, time and quality
• Work with project managers to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for a given deliverable and provide realistic estimates for completing the assignment
• Guide a team of developers to develop and unit test all functions created or modified according to software development best practices
• Collaborate with other Developers and QA Engineers to execute full cycle integration, functional and regression testing.
• Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through to Live Production
• Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement
• Continuously improve the system performance and propose better solutions.
• Effectively interact with business and operations for solving design and operational challenges

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree.
• 7 or more years of hands-on experience.
• 5 or more years of development experience in Surveillance Applications.
• 5 or more years of experience in handling Equities and Options Trading audit trail events data.
• 3 or more years of experience in leading a team of developers.
• Experience in Spark SQL and PARQUET
• Experience in application development in Java or Python.
• Experience in Distributed/Cloud computing and big data.
• Experience in Databricks and Machine Learning is a plus.
• Experience in scripting languages like AWK/bash shell scripting is beneficial.
• Experience working in Agile teams comprised of 5-8 cross-skilled engineers.
• Solid understanding of version control tools (ideally Git).
• Experience in CI/CD tools is a plus.
• Understanding of Messaging Queues and RESTful web services.
• Experience in handling and supporting large scale Production systems.
• Understanding of system monitoring and failure recovery handling is a plus.
• Strong communications skills