Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UBC is a pharmaceutical support industry leader devoted to empowering health solutions, improving patient outcomes, and advancing healthcare across the drug development and commercialization lifecycle. The Principal Software Development Engineer will architect, design, and develop sophisticated software systems while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance across complex projects. The role also involves vendor collaboration, technology strategy, incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Drive collaboration with multiple vendors to establish comprehensive estimates, delivery plans, and timelines for projects or programs within an application family
• Ensure the technological integrity and quality of vendor solutions, providing accountability across concurrent projects or programs
• Lead the delivery and technical guidance across an application family, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives
• Serve as a technical leader for large or complex projects, including:
• Strategizing to optimize and modernize technology, focusing on technical debt reduction where applicable
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance team efficiency and technology support
• Leading knowledge-sharing efforts to strengthen internal and vendor partner expertise
• Acting as a subject matter expert on intricate components of the application environment
• Partner with architects to influence strategic decisions on the use, retirement, or addition of technology within the enterprise architecture
• Provide high-level technical expertise to projects involving multiple complex technology components
• Establish and promote the best practices, reusable components, and guidelines to optimize technology usage
• Lead incident response and problem resolution for critical production issues, ensuring thorough root cause analysis and long-term solutions
• Take on special projects or initiatives as assigned, often with organization-wide visibility and impact

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• Or equivalent work experience
• 12–15 years of relevant experience, including at least 3–5 years at a senior level or in a similar principal engineering role
• Extensive coding experience including .NET Unified Platform V8 and .NET Framework 4.8
• Experience with implementing Pub-Sub and Streaming for Event Driven architectures
• Thorough knowledge and application of advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in software engineering
• Ability to design and implement innovative solutions that align with complex organizational goals and objectives
• Strong customer orientation with an ability to convey technical concepts to stakeholders at all organizational levels
• Extensive experience working within a vendor partner model, ensuring collaboration and quality
• Flexibility to work outside standard hours to meet critical project deadlines
• Exceptional mentoring and coaching skills to develop engineering talent
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to dynamic work environments, and meet project deadlines
• Strong collaborative skills, with experience working across multidisciplinary project teams
• Experience with implementing innovative solutions in Java, React or Go
• Master's degree
• Preference for Confluent or Red Panda Kafka
• In-depth knowledge of the healthcare or PBM industry is preferred

Benefits

• Growth opportunities for promotion
• 401K with company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environment
• Discretionary PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Paid Holidays
• Employee assistance programs
• Medical, Dental, and vision coverage
• HSA/FSA
• Telemedicine (Virtual doctor appointments)
• Wellness program
• Adoption assistance
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Life insurance
• Discount programs

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