Job Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of professional experience in Software development.
• 5+ years of experience working as a BI engineer developing reports and models on a BI tool like Cognos/Looker/Tableau/MicroStrategy/BO
• 7+ years of experience with detailed knowledge of BI data warehouse technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in business intelligence role, including data warehousing and business intelligence tools, as well as experience in diving deep on data analysis or technical issues
• 2+ years of experience with deploying apps using docker/containers/K8s
• 2+ years of experience working with CI tools like Jenkins/Maven/Teamcity to build pipelines for deployment and infrastructure set up
• 5+ years of experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages like Python, Java, Scala, Spring etc.
• 5 years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• 7+ years’ engaging and working with cross-functional enterprise level software development projects using Agile development methodologies and leading team of 8-10 developers
• 4+ years of work experience with large BI environments
• 4+ years of work experience in building self-serve BI solutions, canned reports and enterprise level BI solutions
• 4+ years of experience with data modeling in large Data warehousing, data lake environment
• 1+ years of data science experience with building regression, classification models
• Working knowledge of DevOps methodology and Site Reliability Engineering
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Strong experience working with continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, continuous improvement mindset and willing to “do what it takes” to get the job done
• Experience with, or understanding of Agile/Lean Software Development practices such as Kanban or Scrum
• Ability to manage and balance multiple deliverables concurrently in an environment with shifting priorities
• Ability to deliver on ambiguous projects and work with complex datasets
• Impeccable attention to detail and ability to check your own work
• Good analytical skills with excellent knowledge of SQL and advance SQL.

ROLE

Principal Software Engineer (BI, Reporting & Visualization)

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience to join UKG’s dynamic NextGen Reporting & Visualizations team. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work on cutting-edge SaaS technologies and impactful projects that are used by enterprises and users worldwide. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be involved in the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions. You will work in a collaborative environment, contributing to the technical foundation behind our flagship products and services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems. Ensure hands-on keyboard involvement in critical projects.
• Technical Strategy: Drive the technical strategy and vision for major projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices. Communicate complex concepts, anticipate potential objections, and influence others to adopt a point of view.
• Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-impact software projects on time and within budget. Coordinate activities and tasks of other team members, working independently and needing guidance only in the most complex situations.
• Architectural Excellence: Architect, design, and develop complex software systems and applications, ensuring high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with architects on mid-level and high-level design.
• Complexity: Solve complex issues with innovative solutions, setting precedents as needed. Navigate information, alternatives, and relationships to achieve results. Communicate complex concepts, anticipate objections, and influence adoption of viewpoints.
• Impact: Impact the achievement of area/group objectives. Develop team policies, procedures, and techniques. Drive prioritization of technical debt, articulating the expected impact and outcomes.
• Service Health and Quality: Ensure the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and addressing issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and implement measures to prevent future recurrences.
• Engineering Excellence Practices: Advocate for and implement best quality practices, hold a high bar for engineering excellence, and guide the team in maintaining service quality through the testing pyramid.
• DevOps Model: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient build, test, and deployment phases. Take ownership from working with product management on requirements to designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software in production.
• Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, providing feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to make sure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using , tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Triage defects or customer reported issues, debug and resolve in a timely and efficient manner.
• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, and also contribute to training materials.