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Principal Software Architect
Comcast
Dulles, VA, United States
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Job Summary:
Responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications by innovation. Provides depth across various technologies, drives solutions by cross team collaboration. Collaborates with business, product owners and management, providing software solution to build out new applications. Oversees the documentation of all development activity. Trains non-technical personnel. Assists with tracking performance metrics. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Ability to lead team technically and provides expertise to lead technical solutions. Considers business problems 'end-to-end': including people, process, and technology, both within and outside the enterprise, as part of any design solution. Mentors, reviews codes and verifies that the object oriented design best practices and that coding and architectural guidelines are adhered to. Identifies and drives issues through closure.
Core Responsibilities:
• Collaborates with business and product owners to identify scope and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
• Oversees and leads a large project including complex design and implementation, or leads multiple projects
• Designs and created design artifacts for new software and web applications, supports applications under development, and customizes current applications. Develops software update process for existing applications. Assists in the roll-out of software releases.
• Trains junior Software Development Engineers on internally developed software applications.
• Oversees the researching, writing, and editing of documentation and technical requirements, including evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, and formal recommendations and reports.
• Keeps current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Reviews literature, patents, and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Provides technical leadership throughout the design process and guidance with regards to practices, procedures, and techniques. Serves as a guide and mentor for junior level Software Development Engineers.
• Assists in tracking and evaluating performance metrics. Ensures team delivers software on time, to specification, and within budget.
• Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements.
• Displays expertise in knowledge of engineering methodologies, concepts, and skills and their application in the area of specified engineering specialty.
• Displays expertise in process design and redesign skills. Presents and defends architectural, design, and technical choices to internal audiences.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Job Qualification:
-11+ years of software development primarily in Java
-7+ years on Java technologies including J2EE, JDBC, Web services (SOAP/JSON) along with Oracle experience.
-3-4 years of Spring framework and building J2EE web applications
-2+ years of NoSQL technology such as Couchbase/Cassandra/Redis
-2+ years of ETL technology on the lines of Pentaho or Informatica
-2+ years of experience on MDBs and JMS technologies/BPM frameworks
-Experience in caching technologies e.g. Oracle Coherence etc..
-Experience with JMS, Log4j, Frameworks, Spring, Hibernate and open source software a big plus
-Excellent design, coding and debugging skills required
-Proven experience working across multiple tiers of an application, including a database, network, operating system, and containers
Education Level:-Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
Field of Study:-Engineering, Computer Science
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