Al Futtaim Group is actively seeking highly qualified and experienced individual to take on the role of a Principal Engineer. The selected candidate will be responsible for providing direction and guidence to support and deliver business solutions in their domain expertise aligned with Group IT strategy and defiend architecture patterns and principles. It is also expected to collaborate with other stakeholders to find the right fit and build consensus to support business case and benefits realization and will be responsible and accountable for developing overall solution design and securing the approval (SDAF – Solution Design Approval Forum) in collaboration with respective Domain Architect. 

Duties of Principal Engineer

• Set business domain goals that are cohesive and aligned with product, design and business.
• Responsible for designing solutions that meet Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst adhering to Architecture principles and Technology standards.
• Follows the ‘Architect to Operate’ as a key principle to ensure solutions transition smoothly into Run.
• Participates in RFI/P process and evaluates technical capabilities and commercial prudence of vendors/solutions to recommend right fit, validates technical effort estimations.
• Accountable for owning the design and creating the required documentation to submit to the Solution Design Approval Forum in to get design approval.
• Promotes reusability of existing solutions by adopting approved design patterns.
• Participate in design thinking workshops with key stakeholders.
• Responsible for signing off on the Non-Functional testing ensuring the correct types of testing are conducted as per the application type (e.g. customer facing transaction application requires performance testing).
• Identify architecture related risks, putting the correct mitigation plan in place and managing until resolution.
• Maintain a broad and up to date skillset of the latest market trends, competitive insights, and technologies whilst sharing these within the technical community.
• Provides advice on supplier and cost options, ensures that the validity of the overall solution is fully represented.

Eligibility Requirements

The eligibility requirements for role of a Principal Engineer are as under:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering.
• 8-10 years of work experience in a Solution Architecture or Consulting related position ideally with experience in one of the following industries.
• Experience in a similar role with full autonomy.
• Experience in coaching and developing teams.

Skills Desired

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills, constantly strives for better ways of doing things.
• Technical knowledge covering: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, RPA, Mobile, Web, Cloud
• Experience of Cloud Architecture covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS based applications, ideally using Microsoft Azure.
• Experience designing cloud native applications using Containers and Serverless technologies following Microservice based architectures.
• Analytical and creative in solving problems.
• Solid understanding and experience of ITIL covering Incident, Problem & Change to improve the Operations Architecture
• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, such as TOGAF or Zachman.

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