Citi Group Senior Principal Engineer Enterprise Technology Director 

United States, Florida, Jacksonville 

724300781

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer who is passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. As a Principal Engineer, you will leverage your deep technical knowledge to drive the creation of high-quality software products. You will also be expected to mentor other engineers, share your technical expertise, and promote a culture of technical excellence within the team. The Principal Engineer will report to the Head of Enterprise Technology. There is an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.

Responsibilities

• Code contributingmember of multiple Agile teams, working to deliver sprint goals.
• Demonstratingdeep technical knowledgeand expertise in software development, including programming languages, frameworks, and best practices. Providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members
• Actively contributes to the implementation of critical features and complex technical solutions. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets thehighest standards of quality.
• Collaborate with other Principal Engineers to define and evolve the overall system architecture and design.
• Provide guidance on scalable, robust, and efficient solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices.
• Offer expert engineering guidance and support to multiple teams, helping them overcome technical challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver high-quality software solutions. Foster aculture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends. Evaluate their potential impact on the organization and provide recommendations for technology adoption and innovation.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience of implementing data-intensive solutions using agile methodologies.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages commonly used such asPython, Java, or Scala.
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in working with relational databases and using SQL for data querying, transformation, and manipulation.
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles.
• Experience of modeling data for analytical consumers
• Ability to automate and streamline the build, test and deployment of data pipelines.
• Experience withHadoopfor data storage and processing is valuable, as is exposure to modern data platforms such asSnowflakeandDatabricks.
• Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Multiple years of experience withCloud-native developmentand Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Proven experience of providing technical vision and guidance to a data team.
• Thrives in a dynamic environment, capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with open-source data engineering tools and frameworks (e.g.Spark, Kafka,Beam, Flink, Trino, Airflow, DBT) is a valuable asset
• Exposure to a range of table and file formats including Iceberg,Hive, Avro, Parquet and JSON
• Experience in cloud native technologies and patterns (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Experience of driving and/or influencing the data strategy of your team or organization

• Bachelor’s/Universitydegree or equivalent experience, potentially Master's degree

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