Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Company: Citizens
Location: Swansea
Posted on: April 6, 2021

Job Description:

Citizens Technology is for curious and motivated leaders and engineers looking to build foundational systems that affect millions of customers. Seldom in your career do you have the opportunity to design something so impactful from the ground up. We're seeking a passionate software leader that can help build a platform supporting reusable capabilities and frameworks across the bank. Your role as Principal Cloud Platform Engineer is to work with architecture and engineering teams to produce high-quality technology solutions. You will have the autonomy to lead, craft and develop innovative solutions to some of the most ambitious technical issues. As Principal, you will serve as a peer-leader tasked with pursuing greenfield innovative initiatives and solutions. The breadth of Citizens operations ensures a diversity of projects as the bank pivots towards innovation and customer experience. Primary responsibilities include: Leading in a customer-centric Agile environment rapidly transforming with the feel of a financial technology (FinTech) start-up helping drive digital and cloud-enabled platforms. Collaborating with your team mates and contributing insights to solution design, ensuring success of the product and alignment to enterprise architecture principles. Passion for crafting, modifying, developing and implementing software solutions. Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet strategic business goals. Infusing quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to build or expand business or technical capabilities. Evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process. Serving as a mentor, encouraging a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile methodologies. Qualifications Required Skills/Experience: 7 years of hands-on, progressive full-stack software development experience developing and supporting commercial software products which were sold to non-technical customers in vertical markets Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software engineers Experience in querying, analyzing and handling big data Experience with Akamai required Proficiency in multiple programming languages, including at least one modern front-end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Golang, C, C++, etc. AWS/AZURE/GCP experience, including handling sensitive assets Experience with CICD pipeline (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent.) Strong communication (both oral and written) and social skills around teamwork, enduring leadership, curiosity and a voracious appetite to learn. Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Detailed understanding of data structures such as linked lists, hashmaps, graphs etc. Preferred Skills/Experience: Experience in the financial services industry, developing solutions for consumer banking, portfolio management, trading, compliance or wealth management Understanding of banking systems and consumer banking operations Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch and NoSQL data stores. Big data experience with technologies like Hadoop and Spark. Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials: Bachelor's OR Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field required Hours and Work Schedule Hours per Week: 40 Work Schedule: M-F LI-Sourcer1 Why Work for Us At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth. Equal Employment Opportunity It is the policy of Citizens to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, colleague or a dependent's reproductive health decision making, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, genetic characteristic, citizenship, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, family status/parenthood, victim of domestic violence, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran Citizens is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and each of its respective affiliates.

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