AT&T is looking Principal System Engineer in Dallas, Texas.

About the Team
 

The Strategic Platforms Application Architecture team in the AT&T Digital Strategic Platform group is looking to build a scalable and performant digital platforms. These platforms will be key pillars to enable delightful experiences to our customers and customer facing agents.

About the Job
 

AT&T Digital Platform Product team is looking for a Principal – System Engineer who is passionate about the eCommerce industry and has analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. As a Principal – System Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, and support of AT&T’s Product and Offers applications on att.com in support of the customer and employee digital experience across our consumer distribution channels.  You must possess strong technical background and have experience with large cross-organizational software development projects and have a well-rounded technical background in current cloud technologies.
 

 Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View
 

Collaborate with critical stakeholders to understand business needs, priority, and the quality of services to be created or enhanced; Drive alignment between application team implementation and solution to be compliant with Target State Architecture; Responsible for discovering and identifying any bottleneck gaps such as manual flows that can hinder the services or impact cycle time or cost and resolve them; Provide architectural governance and technical direction for the solution deployment strategy at the Product team level and architectural alignment across product teams; Designing, documenting and sharing the architectural vision across organizations; Reviewing defined features and user stories to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practices; Promoting the use of common technologies, design practices, and infrastructure through the solution design to facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; Collaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmaps; Monitoring the implementation of the solution design to ensure adherence to target architecture and reducing introduction of technical debt; Laying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processes; Ensuring Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for common frameworks, libraries, resiliency, maintainability, automation, performance, logging/debugging, metrics, security, and other common areas of the platform are accommodated for in the solution design; Ensure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible. Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.
 

Qualifications
 

• 7+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)
• 2+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing eCommerce applications
• Proven track record in setting and defining architectural solutions and designs aligned with target architecture; RESTful API development, microservices development, solid understanding of design impacts to performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability
• 5+ years’ experience with eCommerce product catalogs such as ATG, CatalogOne, or CommerceTools; Expert level technical expertise in architecture and design of systems
• Azure and AWS Cloud experience (certification preferred); 2+ years of experience in build and CI/CD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar
• Preferred experience in cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Cassandra, Akamai, Ansible, Chef or Terraform
• Preferred experience in application monitoring including familiarity with Splunk, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders
• Proven track record in negotiating across diverse cross-functional teams and multiple leadership levels
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban development team