Principal Software Engineer (Azure, Java, CI/CD)

 Primary Responsibilities
o    Build and lead the definition of system architecture, detailed solution design and document complex solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data. 
o    Care about cycle time and use Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles.
o    Create and maintain high quality service documentation
o    Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements
o    Have effective communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in significant discussions.
o    Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensures architecture is scalable and extensible
o    Define and support development environment while adopting industry standard methodologies and tools
o    Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration and performance testing is completed efficiently and effectively and guide the technology delivery framework to be entirely automated Testing and deployment.
o    Align with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.
o    Mentor and direct team members on technology and specific design; Own issues and provide end-to-end solutions.
o    Continuously evaluate and prototype new technologies within developer & test community to understand business value and feasibility.
o    Digital mindset, and fluent across technology components including API Services development and consumption using modern frameworks and open source technologies.

The Team

Stock Plan Services (SPS) administers equity compensation programs on behalf of public and private sector companies offering various compensations programs such as: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights and Performance based Awards. Currently SPS services over 1.6M participants employed by over 300 clients and spread out in 150 countries. The business is looking to further expand in the international equity compensation market, focused initially on western European countries and companies based there. As part of this business initiative, we are extending our capabilities to enable a truly global platform.