Application Software Principal Engineering

You must be able to effectively leads large, cross-division functional teams with competing interests and goals. In this role, you will help shape the organization's long-term goals and objectives by combining business acumen and technical leadership to inform management decisions, identify risks and seek out opportunities. HP operates globally and across a wide range of highly regulated industries, requiring software development rigor, secure development practices, and a commitment to strong quality controls; your input will shape the direction of software development across multiple projects and development domains.

**About you**

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated leader who is passionate about software, platforms, customers, and our people too.
- Personality and Cultural Alignment to influence the right decisions - without breaking bridges and adhering to the HP way
- Super-passionate about converting data to customer valuable insights
- Good “Analytical Thinking” to make a majority of right judgement calls

**Responsibilities**

As the Application Software Principal Engineer you would be responsible for driving product success:

- Setup and enforce architecture processes and standards
- Ability to articulate software and systems requirements into documentation including presentations, requirements definitions, design specifications, qualitative metrics and user stories.
- Deep understanding of software development processes and principles such as secure software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, responsible use of open source, risk mitigation, and planning and estimation.
- Demonstrated mastery of systems programming concepts such as distributed systems, virtualization technologies, performance
- computing, driver and firmware interaction.
- Drive innovation roadmap for the GBU, including investigations and proof-of-concept activities and mentors other team members on new technologies and concepts.
- Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
- Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
- Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.

**Knowledge & Skills**
- Experience in overall frontend and backend architecture of web software systems for products and solutions.
- Expert experience architecting client solutions built on web, mobile, desktop and cloud technologies, e.g. React, React Native.JS, Xamarin, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective C and AWS.
- Expert in designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platforms into overall architecture.
- Experience with building large scale architectures for resilience, performance, reuse, scalability and security.
- Experience leading teams of developers and engaging across multiple work streams.
- Experience with designing, architecting, and building software systems and delivering product to market.
- Experience in designing, developing, and debugging solutions from a systems point-of-view.
- Proficient in multiple software development tools and languages.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills along with critical thinking.
- Ability to work across time-zones with virtual development teams.

**Scope & Impact**:

- Viewed as a thought leader by peers across functions.
- Ability to influence organization strategy and long-term planning.
- Ability to influence and gain support across business units and corporate divisions.

**Education and Experience Required**
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant area or demonstrated competence.
- Typically 10+ years of General/owner experience.

**Complexity**
Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

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