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Principal Engineer

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Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA
129K-186K Annually
Hybrid
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129K-186K Annually

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Lead the consumer deposit product suite: build roadmaps, develop go-to-market and pricing strategies, improve member experience, oversee reporting and compliance, and manage a team to drive deposit growth and profitability.

In this role, you will develop, edit and analyze digital platforms, software applications, systems integration, cloud services, databases, reporting, or business analytics to support corporate business objectives. Solve complex technical problems and guide team in the implementation of full solutions built on different platforms and technologies requiring front-end, back-end (APIs), database and DevSecOps development. Understand the products and their interactions to design complex solutions and plan for how new products/features fit into the larger ecosystem.

Responsibilities
  • Analyze and define software requirements to determine specifications and standards
  • Proposes software solutions during design and development for complex and critical business processes
  • Deliver and design new technologies and prototype initiatives for web and mobile platforms.
  • Determine the cost of new and modified systems and engage in the proposal process
  • Train users on policies, procedures, and standards to ensure development
  • Communicate with other team members on the execution, design, requirements, feature set, functionality, and limitations of systems/applications
  • Define code quality metrics to measure the team's performance and ensure it's following Software Development and Security best practices
  • Execute automated tests using multiple systems, digital platforms, environments, or browsers before approving applications
  • Report technical issues to development or product management teams, and verifies fixes. Ensure technical design deliverable artifacts are present before development/build phases are initiated
  • Understand the software development life cycle to assess and improve current software platforms
  • Develop engaging user applications and back-end service software across multiple devices
  • Stays informed of emerging cloud technologies and evaluates their value to the organization's operations
  • Design and development of APIs on API Gateway with appropriate policies to govern API access

Education:
  • Bachelors Degree - Computer Science, Information Technology or related - Minimum
  • Graduate Degree - Computer Science, Information Technology or related - Preferred
  Years of Experience:
  • 10 Years - Cloud Technologies, guide projects or related - Minimum

In Lieu of Education:

  • 12 Years - Cloud Technologies, guide projects or related - Minimum

  

License/Certifications/Training:

  • Certified Azure or AWS Developer and/or Solutions Architect - Preferred

Compensation & Benefits:

Typical hiring range:‏‏‎ ‎$128,500 ‎-‏‏‎ ‎$186,300 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge. 

Additional Compensation: Annual performance bonus 

Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match.

Additional Benefits:

  • Work from home up to 3 days a week
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee discount programs
  • Time off including paid personal and sick days
  • 11 paid holidays 
  • Education reimbursement

*Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.



Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives.


The responsibilities listed do not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.



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