Title: Principal Engineer  

Type: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Will oversee 2-5 team groups within this org
• Role is one-part developer and one part mentor, looking for these engineers to lead other engineers through battle
• Hardened, real work experience to mentor a team
• Warehousing experience is a plus (not required)
• Logistics is where they’ll slot the person in

Requirements

• Manage risks, resolve issues that affect performance, schedule and quality.
• Measure, monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and meet expectations.
• Communicate risks, plans, commitments and changes to business partners and IT leadership.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams.
• Assist with release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and business go/no-go meetings.
• Work with varied stakeholder groups to ensure alignment around objectives, priorities, resourcing, schedules and ownership.
• Create and drive the alignment of technical designs with Solution and Enterprise Architecture.
• Create requirements, specifications and architectural solution documentation.
• Assess existing implementations and architectures, review for gaps against business needs and industry best practices.
• Determine business process design and re-engineering impacts.

Skills

• 6+ years' business, IT or related experience.
• 3 years' enterprise, business or solutions architecture experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or other Cloud PaaS and LaaS providers.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices and CI/CD processes.
• Experience and adaptability to working in a Lean/Agile (Scrum and XP) delivery environment.
• Understanding of business process re-engineering or process improvement.
• Expertise in Java, Python, Node.js or similar.
• Experience in relational and document based databases.
• Strong object oriented skills and experience.

Ability

• Develop or improve strategic processes.
• Consult, transfer knowledge and act as a resource for the resolution of unique opportunities.
• Deal with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders, tech leads and architects.
• Strong organizational skills (multi-tasking) and a self-motivator.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge in governances and best practices for enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps.
• Communicate technical information to and influence a wide and varied audience.