Principal Engineer

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Key responsibilities:

• Proficient in technical knowledge to ensure team performs at a high level. Is recognized as a leader in own area and may formally train Specialists/Senior Specialists.
• Understands how main business drivers may impact on own area. Can assess complex problems with broad impact on the activity, improve processes, recommend solutions and risk mitigation plans. Able to communicate complex information
• Works with a high level of autonomy, based on management directions. Leads projects or contributes to broad cross-functional projects. May contribute to planning of resources and budget
• Solving problems / troubleshooting in a timely manner & with a high level of engagement
• Work in each step of the product development cycle including:
  • creating technical requirements, leading complex feasibility studies, project planning, identifying dependencies and improvements
    Investigate, analyse & give recommendations on the root causes of complex software and system defects
• Foster applications that are easy to monitor and operate, to improve infrastructure availability.
• Apply best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring.

Responsibilities in detail:

• Apply best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring
  Technological Acumen – cross disciplinary knowledge (ex. UI, network…)

• Propose, Drive & Lead in Architecture & Design Review Boards, Design and develop modules & artifacts for Amadeus products, platform components in concert with Architects and Tech Leads in the team
• Guide and mentor developers, business analysts & quality engineers for architecture, coding, design, and production.
• Implement & automates compliance to Functional & Non-Functional Requirements as defined in Amadeus standards
• Solutioning to customer needs, issues, prioritize and ensure delivery.
• Escalate, Manage & remediate potential design, production & quality issues immediately to related development team and management as defined in escalation path procedure.
• Comfortable expanding ambiguous single line requirements or possibilities into next levels of flow tying together functional boxes and ultimately driving the technical direction of products.
• Analyze anomalies and issues, help address RCA and maintain architectural, design, monitoring dashboards. Breakdown complexities into simple procedures and practices.
• Help the Production support team to improve efficiency in problem’s investigation, resolution, dispatch and follow-up to bring Data Quality, Validation and Monitoring continuous improvements.
• Mentor team members in developing technical craftsmanship skills & forming a good Engineering Community.
• Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code

Result Leadership

• Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code
  Improve the technical aspect of the project delivery and provide recommendations for engineering process improvement
• Establish technical standard and drive engineering practices
• Identify new solutions and opportunities in Amadeus’ service offerings

People Leadership

• Work easily with others / ensure smooth communication
• Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing
• Consistently create successful engagement on projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams in driving operating and service excellence

Thought Leadership

• Being a Developer advocate (depending on area of influence, going to hackathon, recruitment days, conference, participating to Opensource)
• Contribute to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members (junior members) technical coaching and mentoring (give an answer, provide feedback) – reactive is mandatory
• Foster innovation and operational performance in the deployment of new functionalities, services and technologies

Key Stakeholders

_ R&D Senior Managers, R&D managers, R&D engineering teams, Scrum masters 

_ Product management team

_ Customer Success teams /Implementation teams

_ User experience team

_ Architects & Principal engineers in departments and across amadeus.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potentialby fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience. 

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receiveconsideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.