Principal Developer

at  Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Java / J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Any public cloud experience (Azure, GCP, AWS), Microservices, GraphQL, REST, Event driven solutions & design (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS etc.), NOSQL, SQL

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree or a combination of work experience and education
• 8+ years in an application development or comparable experience
• Experience working with, and directing, third-party Application Development teams
• Experience leading and supporting teams with large-scale Application Development projects / programs
• Extensive experience across the entire project life cycle (SDLC) – be it implementing new software or enhancing existing functionality
• Experience with interfaces into and from platforms (using APIs, ESB, SAP PI etc.
• Participate in Agile teams
• Drive Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and nontechnical stakeholders

• Serve in a team leader capacity with large-scale Application Development projects / programs
• Lead and direct offshore application development programs
• Maintain a working knowledge of Software Code Development leading practices and serve as a thought leader to the SGWS organization
• Facilitate Code Development / Engineering training and education programs for the IT team
• Provide coaching and development to more junior Application Developers
• Oversee the work of 3rd party Development teams
• Drive the collection of required information to develop work scope around solutions to attain business requirements along with data needs as required
• Serve as liaison between Divisions/Functions and IT on projects and enhancements
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned