The Principal Engineer develops and analyzes software solutions, manages projects, trains users, and ensures code quality and compliance with best practices.
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.
Essential Responsibilities
Education & Years of Experience
In Lieu of Education
License/Certifications/Training
Compensation & Benefits
Typical hiring range: $119,400 - $204,600 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge
Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:
*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.
Essential Responsibilities
- 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 its 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
- Develop engaging user applications and back-end service software across multiple devices
- Design and development of APIs on API Gateway with appropriate policies to govern API access
Education & Years of Experience
- Minimum- 4 Year Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Related
- Preferred - Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Related
- Minimum - 10 Years Cloud Technologies, guide projects or related
In Lieu of Education
- 12 Years Cloud Technologies, guide projects or related
License/Certifications/Training
- Preferred: Certified Azure or AWS Developer and/or Solutions Architect
Compensation & Benefits
Typical hiring range: $119,400 - $204,600 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge
Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:
- Annual performance bonus
- 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.
Top Skills
APIs
Cloud Services
Databases
Devsecops
Digital Platforms
Mobile Platforms
Web Platforms
Alliant Credit Union Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
We are located near O'Hare. We have plenty of parking space available.
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