Principal Software Engineer

Job Number: 27862

Position Title: Principal Software Engineer

External Description:

Our Team

Informatica’s Connectivity group is responsible for Informatica’s ever expanding data connectivity needs. It’s ‘Universal Connectivity’ theme drives Informatica’s vendor neutrality claim and serves as one of the key differentiators over our competitors. Informatica connectors provide connectivity to a wide variety of interfaces, prominent among them being Cloud Systems like AWS, Azure and Google cloud, Relational systems, Data warehouse appliances, Hadoop connectors, Web service endpoints and ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft).

The Adapter product team is responsible for research, development and delivery of connectivity needs to the Informatica Platform that is at the core of Informatica’s products. The adapters need to not only be highly performing, scalable and extensible, but also needs to provide differentiated and advanced features such as change data capture, push down optimization, filtering and update strategy to name a few.

Your Opportunity

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work with a world class Engineering team to design and build next generation products. You will be responsible for architecture, design and building our cloud and on-prem products. In the role of Principal Software Engineer, you must be able to work in and adapt to a fluid, fast-paced environment. Working as a Principal Software Engineer, you must have strong communication, collaboration, technical and leadership skills. 

The position is suited for highly motivated and energetic individuals with a desire to work on the development of high-performance products. You will work on delivering new products/product features in an environment that spans all flavors of Unix/Windows operating systems. You will work across multiple product lines and deliver solutions that benefit customers.

Research and development include areas such as:

• Influence and champion Connectivity frameworks (Software Development Kits) to enable productive development of Connectivity solutions. This would include frameworks necessary on our Development Tools as well as our Runtime-platform side.
• Influence product direction and architecture while developing our next generation Connectivity solutions. There is a significant future architectural direction (based on model-driven architecture) and this position involves influencing, defining and refining this for the needs of this product area.
• Sustaining product base by responding to reported problems, investigating the cause and working out solutions.
• Supporting Product Management on POC’s and Customer engagements.
• Provide technical leadership focusing on research & development of new solutions while enhancing and maintaining existing products.
• Deliver high quality products.
• Product extensibility, including SDK/API definition for metadata, data and management components of products.

 

Your Responsibilities

As part of the Development team, you will be responsible for:

 

• Plays Architect role in designing new products and features.
• Development of components or features as part of a development team.
• Mentor and Lead junior members in the team. Leads the development of code for new or existing software of significant complexity, that may involve coordination of multiple teams/development workstreams.
• Negotiates process, metrics and targets with external teams.
• Authors, reviews and approves requirements and designs for domains within multiple projects.
• Recognized as an expert and acts within the team as ""go to person.""
• Structures and algorithms within domain that result in significant performance improvements
• Take the products/features through the full software development life cycle and deliver compelling customer experiences
• Proactively research and investigate external products and technologies identifying emerging trends and revise software development best practices to take advantage of these
• Perform an advisory role in several features of a release.
• Pro-actively review and ensure best design and implementation of features within the team

Your Qualifications

• Strong academic background – B.E/MS/PhD in Computer Science from top schools.
• Strong background in product development particularly in middle-ware / framework level software. Good focus on performance and design issues and expertise with building large-scale enterprise products is desirable.
• 8+ years of Enterprise Software Development experience with a strong technical background of complex software product development.
• Strong experience in Java, Spark and Hadoop is required.
• Capability of working with a wide range of complex computing environment
• Ability to apply abstract concepts and innovative ideas to business problems
• Excellent written & verbal communication and presentation skills.
• The candidate should have prior experience dealing with full product development lifecycles and multiple releases, preferably of large enterprise software products 

City: Bangalore

State: Karnataka

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Bangalore, Karnataka IN