Principal Engineer, Software - MarTech

About the position

The Principal Software Engineer works with a team of other software engineers, architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and deploy software supporting digital activities. The Principal Software Engineer at times leads or at a minimum is an active participant in architecture and design of various software components focused capturing data analytics, integrating enterprise customer data with Adobe's Suite of services, creating personalized and contextual experiences, optimizing media, and enabling the ability to perform experimentation supporting our web and mobile applications. They work on technical assignments that are difficult, requiring judgment in resolving issues or in making recommendations. They determine methods and procedures on new assignments and work on assignments requiring considerable judgment and initiative. They understand the implications of their work and make recommendations for solutions. They normally receive little instruction on daily work, and only require general instructions on newly introduced assignments. At times, they may be an informal team leader.

Responsibilities

• Drives engineering projects and team members by developing software solutions; conducting tests and inspections; preparing reports and calculations.
• Expected to supervise base through senior level engineers as needed.
• Presents project improvement scenarios to management for consideration.
• Monitor and influence relevant industry technologies and standards.
• Present highly technical concepts to both technical and non-technical decision-makers.
• Continuously learns, creates content, and teaches others specific subject areas.
• Informally coaches and contributes to the development of others through mentoring or in house workshops and learning sessions.
• Develops engineers across functional teams on technology decisions.
• Influence technology and policy decisions made across the VP organization.
• Understand financial decisions, including NPV and ROI, based on customer experience/business drivers.
• Evaluates new and existing technology options that support business goals.
• Understands current technology that supports business goals.
• Understands the building blocks, interactions, dependencies, and tools required to complete software and automation work.
• Develops, designs, and implements new ideas which utilize new frameworks to improve an existing or new system/process/service.
• Investigative independent study and problem solving for non-routine tasks.
• Analyzes existing processes and vendor roadmaps to highlight upcoming technology changes.
• Writes advanced documentation, architecture, capabilities, limitations, and advantages for technologies.
• Creates and modifies clear documentation for new code and systems used.
• Documenting systems designs, presentations, and business requirements for consumption and consideration at the director level.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (Required)
• 7-10 years Technical engineering experience (Required)
• Communication (Required)
• Customer Service (Required)
• Analytics (Required)
• Technical Writing (Required)

Nice-to-haves

• Basic knowledge of Adobe Experience Platform
• Basic knowledge of AJO/ACC V8
• Basic knowledge of Adobe Launch (Tag property, Data Element, Rules, Extension, Event forwarding)
• Basic knowledge of Adobe Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics, Target, Adobe Experience Manager
• Experience in Javascript
• Azure knowledge (Azure Event hub, ADLS, ADF)
• Experience using REST API (Spring boot service)
• Knowledge on web service security
• Database experience (writing queries) Postgres preferred
• Gitlab/Github experience
• Experience on any one of the tools (Lucid/Miro/Figma) for architecture/flow diagrams
• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Employee stock grants
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental and family leave
• Family building benefits
• Back-up care
• Enhanced family support
• Childcare subsidy
• Tuition assistance
• College coaching
• Short- and long-term disability
• Voluntary AD&D coverage
• Voluntary accident coverage
• Voluntary life insurance
• Voluntary disability insurance
• Voluntary long-term care insurance
• Mobile service & home internet discounts
• Pet insurance
• Access to commuter and transit programs