Principal, IT Software Engineer 2

DIRECTV provides customer-facing and internal technology experiences that support its products, customers, and frontline teams. The Principal, IT Software Engineer 2 will design, develop, and modernize customer profile operational data stores and data pathways, while leading technical planning, architecture, security, DevOps, vendor delivery, and cross-functional solution development.

Responsibilities:

• Guide development and modernization of critical customer information operational data stores
• Lead development of data pathways between internal and external systems, especially with integration to identity and access management services
• Govern all aspects of the application design including providing input on application architecture, modern technologies and development techniques, and patterns to create sustainable technology
• Ensure security and compliance for the data and services stored and passed by these systems
• Lead the development of new technologies based on best practices and a coaching mindset for more junior team members
• Govern vendor teams to develop our desired technical vision, minimizing technical debt and ensuring productive, predictable output from our partners
• Serve as the domain technical expert, representing system capabilities to business and technology teams alike, understanding desired business outcomes, and guiding the solution to the most effective implementation, while being comfortable communicating progress, roadblocks, and opportunities to all levels in the organization
• Participate in cross-functional teams to define and hone technical best-practices; evangelize these and support change across teams where needed
• Participate in defining and developing DevOPS best practices, including Production Support and deployment process, and additionally help troubleshoot critical production issues
• A strong communicator, able to effectively synthesize key points of a topic and turn them into a persuasive conversation, presentation, or email

Requirements:

• 5 – 7 years required, 7+ years desired software delivery experience in an agile environment with proven experience in developing enterprise, web, and / or mobile applications
• Experience delivering applications at scale through agile frameworks such as SAFe
• Strong experience developing and interfacing with database technologies is required
• Strong DevOps foundation, including fluency with CI/CD, quality/security/performance automation is required
• Expertise in cloud technologies and platforms, including Azure and AWS, knowledge of data networking is required
• Experience with Relational, document databases and PL/SQL required
• Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to multi-task
• Self-directed, results-oriented individual who can independently handle and thrive with multiple priorities
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience preferred
• Strong experience developing and interfacing with database technologies is required (Oracle, MongoDB preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Oracle database performance improvement and optimization is a plus
• Experience developing for OAuth and integrating IAM platforms is preferred
• ForgeRock/Ping Identity preferred
• Experience in Web Component Development for J2EE Platform and Java 2 Platform preferred
• Experience working with REST and SOAP based web-services preferred
• Experience with Postman, SOAPUI, Mockito preferred