Principal Software Engineer - Compendia

Management Level

E

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

Description

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the configuration or development team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Principal engineers thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 5 - Ensure, Advise

Professional Responsibilities

• Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required
• Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline
  
  

Technical Responsibilities

SFIA Skill: Level 5

Programming/software development PROG

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
  
  

Professional Skills And Qualities

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering
• Analytical - business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle management
• Problem solving
  
  

Technical Skills And Qualities, At Expert Level

• Full Stack development
• REST Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
• HTML5, CSS3
• JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI SASS, Angular, TypeScript
• WebForms, MVC
• Asp.Net, .Net Core, C#
• WCF, Web Api, Windows Services
• Dapper, Entity Framework
• xUnit, Fluent Assertions
• LINQ & Lamda
• PowerShell
• RabbitMQ, Topshelf, Auto Mapper
• OAuth, Identity Server,
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• SQL, T-SQL
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
  
  

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives
• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC
  
  

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.