Lead design and implementation of Camunda-based business process automations. Collaborate with product and service teams, provide technical leadership and mentoring, ensure CI/CD and DevOps practices, participate in code reviews, and drive scalable solutions using Java, APIs, SQL/PLSQL, and cloud environments.
The Principal BPM Camunda, engineer is expected to closely collaborate with business, product and service line teams to create these automated processes.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent is required.
- 8+ years of experience in the domain of software engineering, with a specific focus on business process automation work. Evidence of growing competence, independence, and responsibility in modeling and engineering complex process automation capabilities
- Demonstrable first-hand and recent expertise engineering with Camunda
- SQL & PL/SQL experience is also desirable
- DevOps/CICD experience (Maven, BitBucket, GIT/Stash, Jenkins, Artifactory, uDeploy) is required
- Familiarity with Agile software development practices
- You demonstrate a mastery of professional practices and methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Code Reviews, Refactoring Techniques) and have a proven capability in leading and mentoring others in this regard
- You have demonstrated effective technical leadership. You listen and ask clarifying questions. You have strong, educated, pragmatic opinions both on what we do and how we do it. You embody diversity and inclusion, taking the floor when you have information, experience, or perspective to share; yielding to permit others to grow and allowing best of breed ideas to prevail. You communicate impediments as they arise.
- You drive innovative, scalable solution delivery, undertaking complex changes without the need for direction of an experienced team member whilst safeguarding system stability.
- You actively participate and contribute to technical discussions and code reviews.
- You share your knowledge and skills with engineers in your team and the teams around you, upskilling them and empowering them to do work that previously only you could do.
- You evangelize and promote the successes and learnings of your team in formal ceremonies, such as sprint demos, as well as in casual conversation.
Technical Skills we are looking for during the interview
The ideal candidate has the following skills in priority order. Skills listed as “very helpful” or “helpful” are not strictly required.
- 5 years+ of BPM experience (2 years+ of Camunda experience)
- Experience calling Camunda via APIs
- Leadership experience training others on BPM/Camunda
- Great team work and communication is very helpful
- Moderate SQL + PL/SQL skill is very helpful
- Some Java + Spring to help with APIs is helpful
- Experience running Camunda / BPM or other things in AWS/cloud environments is helpful.
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 38,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 135,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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