Job Title
Principal Engineer
Common Accountabilities
- Has specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline or function. Provides expert guidance, promotes innovation and formally trains groups of less experienced professionals.
- Has a broad understanding of the environment and uses it to improve efficiency, recommends solutions/best practices and influence the strategy of the department. Translates the strategy of the activity into a concrete action plan for the area, setting and monitoring targets for the team.
- Works independently, based on management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practices/quality resource.
Specific Accountabilities
Technical Excellence
Building & defining best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring
Ensure adoption and improvement of development tools & environment: promote existing ones, assess them and recommend improvements with the aim to encourage common tools to avoid duplications
Promote practices linked to the methodologies in use (Agile, DevOps)
Ensure continuous technological watch
Continuous Improvement
Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code
Improve the technical aspect of the project delivery and provide recommendations for engineering process improvement
Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing
Actively contributing to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members (junior members) technical coaching and mentoring (give an answer, provide feedback)
Contributing to PE community events
Defining training content and/or delivering training (to evolve per level)
Diversity & Inclusion
Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.
Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.
