Principal Software Engineer

As a consulting/principal software engineer, you provide assistance and input to management, develop and lead large multifunctional development activities, solve complex technical problems, design solutions, write complex code, and serve as a senior source of expertise. You may also provide sizing or budget recommendations to management.,

• Serving as a primary technical point of contact for internal and external technology resources. Provide design input across a product.
• Writing and creating quality software by following development best practices and processes for testing and coding
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide support and guidance for the full software development life cycle of products
• Designing, create and build scalable, sustainable and architecturally sound solutions. Providing direction on project plans, schedules, and methodologies
• Mentoring and guiding junior team members and partners to develop their skills in software development and best practice
  
  Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: Java/J2EE, Scala/Python, XML, JSON, SQL, Spring/Spring Boot.
• Expertise with RESTful web services, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etc.
• Experience with relational SQL, NoSQL databases and cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Docker
• Good knowledge of object-oriented methodologies, design patterns, database application design, application development and maintenance. Solid knowledge of architectural principles.
• Able to administer the delivery of successful projects and to solve problems through innovation, prototyping, findings alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
• Experience in data modelling, design and manipulation, optimization, best practices, tuning, and leading industry trend knowledge.
• Experience organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.
Nice to have Skills:
• Acquaintance with data harvesting, transformation of data, data stream processing to build modern data processing pipeline.
• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, EMR etc.)
• Experience working with JSON-LD and XML standards (XQuery, XPath, xsd etc.)
• Familiar with DevOps tools and processes of continuous integration and continuous deployment. (e.g. Jenkins, antifactory, puppet, terraform etc.)
  
  Our Technology teams use cutting-edge technologies to build data platform and services that are utilized across different Elsevier products. We provide our customers data powerhouse that enable the leading researchers, scientists and technologist to make lightning-fast connections to the world's most comprehensive, accurately linked and most current data about research.
  
  We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
About the Business A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.