[Hiring] Principal, IT Software Engineer 2 @DIRECTV

Role Description

The DIRECTV IT team builds experiences that efficiently offer our products to prospects, delight our customers, and create a connected omnichannel experience. Within this, the Existing Customer Lifecycle value stream builds experiences that enable customers to get the most from their DIRECTV service and empowers our front-line team members who help them with intelligent technology.

DIRECTV is seeking a Principal, IT Software Engineer 2, to design and develop end-to-end solutions for our customer profile operational data store and staging environment, managing dependencies and cross-team impacts. This role is responsible for planning short term (sprint-to-sprint) and long-term (multiple PI) initiatives and organizing work and designs to meet the long-term target.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Guide development and modernization of critical customer information operational data stores.
• Lead development of data pathways between internal and external systems, especially with integration to identity and access management services.
• Govern all aspects of the application design including providing input on application architecture, modern technologies and development techniques, and patterns to create sustainable technology.
• Ensure security and compliance for the data and services stored and passed by these systems.
• Lead the development of new technologies based on best practices and a coaching mindset for more junior team members.
• Govern vendor teams to develop our desired technical vision, minimizing technical debt and ensuring productive, predictable output from our partners.
• Serve as the domain technical expert, representing system capabilities to business and technology teams alike, understanding desired business outcomes, and guiding the solution to the most effective implementation.
• Participate in cross-functional teams to define and hone technical best-practices; evangelize these and support change across teams where needed.
• Participate in defining and developing DevOPS best practices, including Production Support and deployment process, and additionally help troubleshoot critical production issues.
• A strong communicator, able to effectively synthesize key points of a topic and turn them into a persuasive conversation, presentation, or email.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5 – 7 years required, 7+ years desired software delivery experience in an agile environment with proven experience in developing enterprise, web, and/or mobile applications.
• Experience delivering applications at scale through agile frameworks such as SAFe.
• Strong experience developing and interfacing with database technologies is required (Oracle, MongoDB preferred).
• Strong DevOps foundation, including fluency with CI/CD, quality/security/performance automation is required.
• Expertise in cloud technologies and platforms, including Azure and AWS, knowledge of data networking is required.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle database performance improvement and optimization is a plus.
• Experience with Relational, document databases and PL/SQL required.
• Experience developing for OAuth and integrating IAM platforms is preferred.
• ForgeRock/Ping Identity preferred.
• Experience in Web Component Development for J2EE Platform and Java 2 Platform preferred.
• Experience working with REST and SOAP based web-services preferred.
• Experience with Postman, SOAPUI, Mockito preferred.
• Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to multi-task.
• Self-directed, results-oriented individual who can independently handle and thrive with multiple priorities.

Requirements

• May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customer’s proprietary data.
• This role requires, but is not limited to, 5% travel.
• This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the United States, with the exception of Alaska.

Benefits

• DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees.
• Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
• Base Salary range: $147,830 - $268,307.
• Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• Salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits.