Principle Software Engineer

Job description

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a global technology powerhouse. With some of the best-known brands in the world, Siemens has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and reliability for more than 175 years.

We are currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Brightly Team in Cairo, Egypt.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive and own end-to-end delivery of innovative and performant features into our next-generation software applications. Encourage a team of engineers to apply deep knowledge of computer science & programming principles into innovative solutions.
• Encourage and guide engineers to design, implement, document libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, demonstrated by multiple products, calibrating scope, time, cost & quality constraints.
• Guide and mentor engineers on clear maintainable full-stack code, working in a professional software engineering environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration and deployment, etc.).
• As a member of an agile team, write new feature code or new test automation frameworks based upon business needs.
• Participate multi-functionally in portfolio & product planning sessions as an engineering innovator with a focus on the horizon. Own assigned areas/services/components of products as the technical guru.
• Support our products, enable teams to identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own the long-term closure of major incidents.
• Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
• Apply and influence data-driven analysis and pragmatic decision making aligned with business and technology needs. Follow up on immediate deliveries with long term solutions.
• Partner in build vs buys vs partner decisions, vendor selection, technology selection, cloud strategy, M&A analysis, KPI establishment, technology roadmaps, project tracking, business case rationalization.
• Serve as a technical lead for teams as needed or special purpose projects per business priority.
• Influence architects, senior engineering, and product management to measure, track and iterate continuous improvement processes across engineering field, impacting success across the agile delivery organization globally.
• Present operational status to management from an engineering operations level and advise back to engineers on calibration at team level practices. Welcome, change and complexity. Learn quickly and adapt fast. Be a change leader!

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent additional work experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Design patterns and practices, data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, SOLID principles, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally.
• 5+ years’ web development, JS frameworks, UI/UX technologies.
• 7+ years’ REST services, SOA, micro-services, unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks.
• DevOps mindset - 5+ years' experience in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, operational metrics knowledge
• 3+ years' experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Led multiple teams in a global delivery, agile, CI/CD, metrics-based setting.
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork, and influencing skills are required. Ability to communicate with and present to engineers, senior management & relevant stakeholders.

We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

We offer a comprehensive reward package which includes a competitive basic salary and a generous holiday allowance.

Siemens is an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate unlawfully on any grounds. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.