Summary

　　What is a Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions

　　Your passion for technology and hunger for digital transformation and innovation will help shape the future of sales and marketing within the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) space for years to come. In your daily interactions, you will provide essential strategic and day-to-day leadership across the organization, working with teams of engineers and product owners, aligning cross-functional projects, and ensuring fiscal and technical alignment with the organization.

　　In this model, a Principal Engineer is a strategic role that directly collaborates with the Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and other key partners to define a target state vision and technical roadmap for the business domain they are responsible, including its end-to-end architecture while ensuring adherence to standards and strategic initiatives.

　　A successful Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions manifests holistic wisdom of up- and down-stream impacts of technology solutions and trends to guide the development of future products and patterns. With that, a Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions is a top-tier engineer – a visionary leader and a hands-on builder – with experience making high-level design choices, framing technical standards, and re-enforcing frameworks, patterns, and principles, including tools, software, and engineering execution standards.

　　To be effective, a Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions develops expertise within their domain (understanding capabilities, strong problem-solving skills, etc.), creates a roadmap for their systems, and communicates that plan to others within the organization. However, more than technical knowledge is required, as a Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions must also have the soft skills to manage and positively influence projects and people.

　　The focus area for this role will be Advantage Commercial, with a hyper-focus on Consumer packaged goods (CPG) Execution, including all actions a brand takes to get to the final step of the buyer’s journey: purchase .

　　A Principal Engineer @ Advantage Solutions is a highly technical individual contributor responsible for driving activities in the following two distinct but related areas.

　　Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalize existing capabilities, services, and product features. At the same time, avoiding duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration.

　　A proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale engineering transformation projects, ideally within the CPG market, using contemporary technologies and methodologies such as:

　　Digital Customer Experience platforms / CRM platforms

　　E-commerce Platforms

　　CMS, Search, PIM, DAM, OMS

　　DevSecOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large-scale delivery

　　Architecture and design knowledge of API gateways, Microservices, Integrations, IaC, and Data platforms

　　Cloud platform architectures (Azure)

　　Quality Engineering

　　Summary

　　Tasks often involve investigating unique and complex problems.

　　Responsible for making decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative and have an essential impact on complete architectural design activities.

　　Frequently involved in the conceptual stage of the design phase of a project and accepts complete responsibility for the architectural design elements of the entire project.

　　Principal Engineersmust keep themselves well-versed in new technology and industry trends.

　　Responsible for prioritizing ever-changing tasks and scopes while ensuring that schedules and deadlines are met.

　　Evaluate project costs and aid in crafting budgets for new projects.

　　Providing the development team with architectural blueprints to follow.

　　Partner with technology vendors and consultants to identify opportunities to innovate.

　　Responsibilities for Principal Architect @ Advantage Intelligence

　　Primary Responsibilities:

　　Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine application requirements

　　Play a central role in technical, business, and organizational contributions affecting the sub-department/department

　　Creating high-level product specifications and design documents (conceptual and physical diagrams)

　　Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience

　　Providing the development team with architectural blueprints to follow

　　Ensure the security of all applications/software systems

　　Meet financial objectivesby forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, schedulingexpenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions

　　Actively seek ways to improve business applications/software processes and interactions

　　Enhance our cloud capability by creating and implementing cloud application patterns

　　Work closely with lead architects and engineers to create and maintain architectural templates, build/operational documents, and automation playbooks

　　Define API features, expected security setup, scalability, and monetization.

　　Secondary Responsibilities:

　　Research and properly evaluate sources of information to determine possible limitations in reliability or usability

　　Help other development and engineering teams resolve application-to-platform integration issues for Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services

　　Maintain domain knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations

　　Coach and mentor engineering teams to raise collective technical expertise

　　Testing the final product to ensure it is entirely functional and meets requirements

　　Use a proactive approach to common challenges and continually researching best practices in coding

　　Qualifications / Skills / Requirements

　　Outstanding collaboration and communication skills are essential

　　10+ years of hands-on experience in architecting and designing solutions using at least three disciplines: cloud architecture, software development, data platform integration, business processes and capabilities, focusing on scalability, security, performance, and cost to serve

　　10+ years of experience in applying architecture patterns that cover application, data, events, and API-led design concepts enabling transaction flow for scenarios such as application to application, business to business (B2B), direct to consumer (B2C), digital integration, devices, and things

　　10+ yrs. Experience working on large-scale application projects

　　10+ yrs. Exposure to cloud-managed services, serverless technology, and microservices like Function-as-a-Service, Containers, and managed databases

　　10+ yrs. Experience developing applications/software utilizing various coding languages, including Python, .Net, Java, JavaScript/React, and more

　　10+ yrs. Experience overseeing customized development of processes for multiple projects simultaneously

　　10+ yrs. Experience designing secure applications systems based upon industry specifications

　　Demonstrated deep knowledge of web applications, webhook and API development, cybersecurity, and open-source technologies

　　Demonstrate a track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills - the ability to work cooperatively at all levels in a matrix environment

　　Responsibilities

　　The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

　　Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

　　Requirements Gathering & Planning

　　Regularly meet with stakeholders and users to determine requirements and demo development progress. Create wireframes and mockups, architect systems and data models, and plan a development roadmap.Software Development

　　Code back-end services, controllers, and APIs; front-end views and components; and data models that meet the project’s requirements. Advance the codebase by removing technical debt.Testing and QA

　　Incorporate and improve unit test coverage and generate UI tests to automate testing. Smoke test as needed and perform code reviews to ensure the accuracy and clarity of code.Customer Service & Support

　　Provide post-release training, troubleshooting, and ad-hoc bug fixes. Write and keep technical documents up-to-date.Personal & Team Growth

　　Adopt and advance the team’s best practices and actively contribute new ideas and concepts. Maintain understanding of current technologies and programming practices through continuous education, reading, workshops, and/or groups. Train new software engineers.Supervisory Responsibilities

　　Direct Reports

　　This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reportsIndirect Reports

　　May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reportsTravel and/or Driving Requirements

　　Travel and Driving are not essential duties or functions of this jobMinimum Qualifications

　　The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job

　　Education Level: (Required): Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

　　Field of Study/Area of Experience: Computer Science or other related discipline

　　10 or more years of experience:

　　.NET, C#, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, T-SQL, MVCAdditional experience a plus:

　　• AngularJS, Azure, Bootstrap, jQuery, REST, SCSS, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services

　　Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

　　Motivated to learn, experiment, and use the latest technologies

　　Positive attitude with a desire to solve problems

　　Familiar with the stages of the software development lifecycle

　　Knowledge of security best practices

　　Team player who is comfortable partnering with business departments

　　Troubleshooting and debugging skills

　　Comfortable shuffling priorities and context switching based on business needs

　　Possess a sense of pride and confidence in authored code

　　Understand the business domain and proactively suggest features

　　Independent worker requiring very little oversight

　　Environmental & Physical Requirements

　　Office / Sedentary Requirements

　　Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear the telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may also require the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.

　　Additional Information Regarding The Company Job Duties and Job Descriptions

　　Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

　　Any estimate, schedule, or guideline provided to associates in this job description or elsewhere in connection with their jobs is only intended to help describe job duties and for planning purposes. Regardless of any such estimate, schedule, or guideline, associates must always record all time worked for our company (which includes but is not limited to on-site work time in an assigned store, office, or other work location; required waiting time; administrative time; and work-related travel time).

　　Important Information

　　The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

　　The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

　　Job Locations US-IL-Chicago

　　Primary Posting Location : City Chicago

　　Primary Posting Location : State/Province IL

　　Primary Posting Location : Postal Code 60601

　　Primary Posting Location : Country US

　　Requisition ID 2024-431149

　　Position Type Full Time

　　Category Professional: (IT, Finance, Legal, HR, Talent Acquisition, Administrative, Customer Service)

　　Minimum USD $107,647.00/Yr.

　　Maximum USD $199,500.00/Yr.