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Senior Principal SW Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

Annual Salary USD 183,000 - 370,500

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Description

We are seeking a Senior Principal SW Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Principal SW Engineer, you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. You will be responsible for designing, developing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs for software enhancements and new products.

Responsibilities:

  • Develops organization-wide architectures, strategies, and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
  • Identifies and makes informed recommendations regarding new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
  • Reviews, evaluates, and influences designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards.
  • Provides tangible solutions that improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
  • Contributes to domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
  • Brings creativity and innovation to the organization.
  • Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence; helps mentor career growth.
  • Acts as an internal authority on software systems design, sought out for consulting across organizations or Business Units.
  • Contributes to the external technical community through whitepapers, patents, or other significant innovations.

Education and Experience Required:

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
  • Typically 12+ years’ experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing innovative software system design tools and languages.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in leading overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
  • Designing and integrating efficient and scalable software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
  • Evaluating and selecting forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools with customer mindset.
  • History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local languages, with an excellent ability to communicate nuanced concepts and influence in written and oral communication with a broad vocabulary.
  • Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals, and negotiate and influence options at business unit and executive levels.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
  • Investment in career development and growth.
  • Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

Salary Range: Annual Salary USD 183,000 - 370,500

Skills

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