Principal Software Engineer

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.