Principal Engineer Tech Lead

Overview

Position Summary:

Under minimal supervision, leads software development activities including software requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and integration.

Responsibilities

Provides software technical leadership on a software development team. This includes –

• Understanding of the product and software features, participation in software development planning and priorities along with roadmap options, software architecture and design, lead development activities, effective analysis of challenges and issues providing effective solutions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, coaching and mentorship, and great teamwork.
• Participating in requirements review, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.

Participate as an active member on a project development team: This includes:

• requirements change control
• defect management
• risk analysis
• release management
• configuration management.
• Thorough understanding of industry best practices on cybersecurity.
• Creates/Maintains software requirement/functional specifications.
• Creates/Maintains software architecture documentation.
• Creates/Maintains software (component) design documentation.
• Creates/Maintains software source code that adheres to design documentation.
• Performs unit testing and/or code reviews as per project policy.
• Performs integration testing to ensure software functions within application and with electrical devices.
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements fixes to assigned software defects.
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements assigned software change proposals.
• Provides level of effort for assigned software activities
• Tracks personal estimates over time to improve accuracy.
• Follows project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software development

Management:

• Creates/Maintains software configuration management plans.
• Oversees the design of software deliverables for software developers on a project helping them build an optimal solution.
• Work with product owners, scrum masters and team members to build a plan that the team executes.

Technical:

• Brings new software technologies into the company.
• Creates/Maintains applications (utilities) for the project to improve team efficiency, such as hardware control for other engineering disciplines or automated data analyzers for software test.
• Must have the ability to handle many software components and take ownership of a large percentage of the code base.
• Must have the ability to take ownership for high complexity implementations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Budget Managed (if applicable):

• N/A

Internal Networking/Key Relationships:

• TBD based on departmental/project needs

Skills & Capabilities:

• Leadership, Management, Team, Individual, etc. (for e.g.: holds people accountable, teamwork, delegation, communication, impact and influencing, etc.)
• Ability to operate instrumentation.
• Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work in a Safe AGILE team environment of software developers and testers.

Qualifications

Min Knowledge & Experience Required for the Position:

• Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 8 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
• Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science. Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages.
• Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C , Java, C#, etc.) found in product development.

International Mobility Required:

• No

Travel Requirements: 

• <5% of time