Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Job Title
Principal Engineer
Common Accountabilities - Proficient in technical knowledge to ensure team performs at a high level. Is recognized as a leader in own area and may formally train Specialists/Senior Specialists.
- Understands how main business drivers may impact on own area. Can assess complex problems with broad impact on the activity, improve processes, recommend solutions and risk mitigation plans. Able to communicate complex information.
- Works with a high level of autonomy, based on management directions. Leads projects or contributes to broad cross-functional projects. May contribute to planning of resources and budget.
Specific Accountabilities Technical Excellence
- Producing code of high quality with high efficiency
- Work in each step of the product development cycle including creating technical requirements, leading complex feasibility studies, project planning, identifying dependencies and improvements
- Investigate, analyze & give recommendations on the root causes of complex software and system defects
- Solving problems / troubleshooting in a timely manner & with a high level of engagement
- Foster applications that are easy to monitor and operate, to improve infrastructure availability
- Apply best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring
- Technological Acumen – cross disciplinary knowledge (ex. UI, network…)
- Knowledge of working in both Frontend and backend
- Work in each step of the product development cycle including creating technical requirements, leading complex feasibility studies, project planning, identifying dependencies and improvements
- Work on complex problems or changes where analysis of data requires in-depth evaluation
- Investigate, analyze & give recommendations on the root causes of complex software and system defects
- Apply best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring
- Foster applications that are easy to monitor and operate, to improve infrastructure availability
- Ensure adoption and improvement of development tools & environment : promote existing ones, assess them and recommend improvements with the aim to encourage common tools to avoid duplication
- Promote practices linked to the methodologies in use (Agile, DevOps…)
- Ensure continuous technological watch
Continuous Improvement
- Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code
- Improve the technical aspect of the project delivery and provide recommendations for engineering process improvement
- Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing
- Work easily with others / ensure smooth communication
- Consistently create successful engagement on projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams in driving operating and service excellence
- Attending to PE community events
- Contribute to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members (junior members) technical coaching and mentoring (give an answer, provide feedback) – reactive is mandatory
- Delivering trainings that have been defined – optional
- Being a Developer advocate (depending on area of influence, going to hackathon, recruitment days, conference, participating to Opensource)
- Consistently create successful engagement on projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams in driving operating and service excellence
- Represent engineering in cross-functional activities (quality initiatives, etc)
- Contribute to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members coaching and mentoring
- Ensure appropriate technical training is available; participate in elaborating and/or providing training
- Ensure that newcomers are receiving appropriate technical accompaniment (training, booklets etc)
- Contribute to the Principal Engineer community and other relevant ones
Innovation
- Recommend process improvements
- Foster innovation and operational performance in the deployment of new functionalities, services and technologies
- Improve project delivery and provide recommendations for process improvement
- Identify new solutions and opportunities in Amadeus' service offerings
- Establish technical standard and drive engineering practices
Diversity & Inclusion We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
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