Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer with experience in Data Engineering, Snowflake & python with Convera, you will be responsible to oversee the development and utilization of data systems. You will be reporting to the Director – Data Engineering, to join our dynamic team in the Foreign Exchange payments processing industry. Principal Software Engineer will provide technical leadership to the data engineering team and collaborate with senior engineers within the team and across multiple disciplines within Convera. This position is an individual contributor role and is highly technical. It requires extensive knowledge of complex technical principles, practices, and procedures related to all aspects of data engineering and the ability to perform hands-on engineering. This individual will be responsible for developing and executing projects that enable scalable ingestion, processing, storage, and distribution of large volumes of data through streaming and API's. This role will also actively mentor junior staff members and help grow the data engineering team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking

• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions

• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions

• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

• Architect and optimize platforms leveraging OpenShift and AWS to support containerized and cloud-native applications.

• Collaborate with data engineering teams to enhance platform capabilities, enabling fast, scalable data pipelines for millions of users. Lead the architecture and product development strategy, influencing technical decisions across teams.

• Independently design prototypes to shape future infrastructure improvements and provide technical leadership on core services. Manage project timelines, resources, and dependencies, driving key technology decisions and initiatives that impact multiple divisions.

• Implement best practices for platform security, governance, and compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and security frameworks.

• Facilitating team partnership with backend product engineers to optimize production database schemas with data use cases in mind.

• Facilitating inter-departmental partnerships with stakeholder teams to improve their data infrastructure through automation support, data education, and strategic support.

• Facilitating cross-team communication to minimize redundancies and keep teammates moving in step.

• Mentoring and developing junior teammates through pairing, architecture discussions, PR reviews, and big picture/strategic support.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with proven experience in designing, developing, deploying, and managing cloud-based infrastructure, preferably for data platforms.

• 15+ years of programming experience, with strong proficiency in Python and 5+ years in data engineering, specializing in Spark or similar distributed frameworks.

• 5+ years of experience in the healthcare sector and 2+ years with cloud-based platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or similar data lakes.

• Proficient in using orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) and cloud-based data lake technologies (e.g., Databricks).

• Strong proficiency in cloud-based data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, AWS), database relational modeling, version control systems (Git preferred), and modern data ingestion/transformation tools (e.g., Fivetran, dbt).

• Expertise in cloud architecture, DevOps, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), containerization, and serverless computing

• Skilled in developing and implementing data security policies and procedures, pairing with Information Security & Legal team partners, aligning with industry standards and regulations to safeguard information and comply with data protection laws.

• Experience and understand the importance of implementing end-to-end monitoring & alerting solutions, and utilization of data processing technologies (i.e., Hadoop, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, and Kafka)

• Strong background in Cloud Data Platforms using any one of the leading cloud platforms -AWS

• Extensive prior experience as a data engineer, with a solid understanding of engineering best practices (e.g. Agile software development, test-driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.)

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs.

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers which makes Convera a rewarding place to work. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, results-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment.

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus.
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization
• A flexible approach to work

There are plenty of amazing opportunities at Convera for talented, creative problem solvers who never settle for good enough and are looking to transform Business to Business payments. Apply now if you're ready to unleash your potential.

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