Principal Software Engineer

Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal Software Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.

Responsibilities:

•    Researches, analyses, designs, develops, and delivers IT architecture solutions. 
•    Oversees integrated systems analysis and recommends appropriate hardware and software upgrades and enhancements to support IT goals and strategy. 
•    Coordinates project team activities and monitors project schedules and costs. 
•    Defines patterns and development frameworks for junior developers. 
•    Supports, resolves, and documents issues that arise in system architecture. 
•    Reviews designs and recommends improvements to architecture. 
•    Maintains knowledge of IT industry trends, enterprise standards, methodology, and best practices. 
•    Defines, implements, and maintains technology processes and procedures to proactively protect against, monitor, investigate, and resolve threats to a secure user environment and company assets. 
•    Prepares and presents test plans, scan reports, technical presentations, and analyst briefings addressing potential solutions and best practices. 
•    Mentors, leads, and manages multiple development and testing teams.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Information Technology, Electronics Engineering, or related field and 7 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as a Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Developer, or related position.

Experience must include at least three (3) years of the following:

•    Analyzing, designing, and developing software applications/interface architecture of large and business critical systems;
•    Working on API implementation with REST Web Services (Spring MVC) and Swagger;
•    Working on API implementation with SOAP Web Services (Axis2, JAX-WS); 
•    Decomposing existing applications into cloud micro services; 
•    Actively working on Docker, Docker Swam and Kubernetes to manage Kafka, ZooKeeper, and Logstash clusters; 
•    Designing and implementing (coded) applications with stringent performance & scalability requirements and developing low latency, extreme transaction processing systems; 
•    Working on the Unit Testing of various modules by generating the JUnit Test Cases to achieve TDD; and 
•    Building Web service using Spring boot, SOAP, and REST technologies.

Experience must also include: 
•    Creating full stack IT solutions including IT architecture, within an Agile framework using Java, Spring, SpringBoot, Bootstrap, Hibernate, Spring JPA, and PL/SQL; 
•    Developing enterprise APIs in Java and deploying on PaaS using CI/CD pipelines; 
•    Utilizing version controls tools, including Git, Bitbucket, SVN, and IBM ClearCase; 
•    Developing REST APIs and business logic using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Spring, and Maven; and 
•    Monitoring application performance using Datadog.

100% remote work permitted from any US location.

Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer.

For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com  and apply online (Job ID: 49501) or email resume and cover letter to Recruiting@Citizensbank.com with subject line: 49501.

Direct applicants only. 

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.