Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer - Generation ITConstellation is seeking a highly technical and strategic Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, development, and modernization of enterprise software solutions that support business operations, power generation, and digital transformation initiatives. This role serves as the organization's top technical expert for application design and software engineering practices, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure teams, product owners, and other engineering leaders. The Principal Software Engineer will drive technical and consistent excellence across multiple applications and platforms while influencing enterprise engineering standards, cloud adoption, AI integration, operational resiliency, integration platforms and software modernization efforts.A Principal Software Engineer is a hands-on subject matter expert who is responsible for the overall software design of many components within systems and can lead the technical implementation of multiple initiatives. This role also will cover operational application production support of multiple systems across portfolios. The position requires strong cross-team & cross-functional coordination/collaboration and even stronger communication skills working with senior management, technology leadership peers, key business partners, technical staff, and external partners. The candidate needs great interpersonal skills, enjoys dealing with tight schedules, can solve complex problems and will thrive in our high-energy, fast-paced environment. They will also be expected to be willing to take on additional engineering and leadership duties as assigned.Primary Duties and AccountabilitiesDrive multiple projects through to delivery, removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.Provide Technology Production support for multiple high Business value applications in an operational capacity across Portfolios.Develop architecture and design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions.Drive improvements to software engineering practices.Prioritize technology investments to balance short- and long-term goals.Collaborate with teams across Constellation to achieve goals, promote collaboration across teams for code reuse and knowledge sharing and mentor and develop others.Keep up to date with industry trends and apply projects as appropriate. Identify investments needed to improve business/customer/partner experience through a data driven approach.Provide coaching/ mentorship for IT personnel. Participate in career development and recognition activities. Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and foster teamwork, collaboration, and a learning organization.Cloud expansion including Azure, Appian (AWS), etc.Architecting integrations for Generation portfolio applications including considerations for advancing Artificial Intelligence adoptionManaging high-availability environments and regulated operational environmentsMinimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in Information Systems or a Technical Program and 8 years of experience, or 12 years of equivalent experience in lieu of the degree8-years of experience in area of technical specialty; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience3-years architecting distributed systemsExperience with migrating workloads from onprem to cloud such as GCP10-years IT application production support experience supporting multiple applications across portfolios in an operational environment servicing an enterprise level user base10-years software design and development experience with backend and database services such as SQL or NoSQL databases Oracle, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MySQL, Redis, Splunk9-years relevant hands-on experience in object programming languages such as: Python, Perl, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, .NET, HTML, AngularJS, iOS Swift and/or Objective, Android Mobile, Xamarin, or PythonPreferred QualificationsAbility to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of businessAble to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time, and communicate timeline to team membersAbility and desire to take product/project ownershipAbility to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needsAbility to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.Cloud and services experience with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.Passion for building highly scalable, exceptionally reliable services.Experience with or exposure to Agile Scrum, Kanban, and interactive development processes.Appian PaaS experienceExperience with data lakes, data warehouses and data bricksExperience architecting and developing AI IntegrationsExperience developing high-availability environmentsExperience working within regulated operational environments