IT Principal Software Engineer
Company: Abbott
Location: Waukegan
Posted on: March 16, 2023
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Job Description:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more
fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing
technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading
businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices,
nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues
serve people in more than 160 countries.**About Abbott**Abbott is a
global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve
people's health. We're always looking towards the future,
anticipating changes in medical science and technology.**Working at
Abbott**At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn,
care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full
life. You'll also have access to:+ Career development with an
international company where you can grow the career you dream of .+
Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan
(HIP) PPO+ An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer
contribution+ Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save
(https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html)
student debt program and FreeU
(https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html)
education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a
bachelor's degree.+ A company recognized as a great place to work
in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most
admired companies in the world by Fortune.+ A company that is
recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as
a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female
executives, and scientists.**The Opportunity**This position works
out of our **Lake County Illinois** location in the **Business
Technology Services.** We are looking for a IT Principal Software
Engineer for digital technology solutions.+ As a principal software
engineer you will ensure the solution design is delivered in line
with best practices, embedding our standards of quality,
reusability, scalability and configurability.+ You will work with
the business systems analyst, project manager and solution
architect to deliver on our commitments to our business partners.
This role is also key to the testing issue resolution process,
providing a key end to end knowledge of the solutions built and
root cause analysis. As a principal software engineer you own end
to end delivery.+ You will guide technical solution /
implementation, oversees branch/merge strategies, peer reviews, and
other ways of working, uses best test-driven design practices,
define strategy for future product performance and quality as well
as work with the program team to facilitate evaluation of incoming
requests. You will develop high level scoping and estimations.+ The
principal software engineer will guide and coach the senior
developers and developers (internal and external) on standards,
code quality and continuous improvement opportunities.+ You have
worked on medium to large scale projects and want to take your
impact to the global scale. You can work across multi-functional
teams and multiple applications using the best each to meet
business needs.+ You have worked on medium scale projects and want
to take your impact to the global scale. You can work across
multi-functional teams and multiple applications using the best
each to meet business needs.**What You'll Work On**+ Lead software
delivery by applying standards and working with cross-functional
teams and technology stacks.+ Actively participate in pair
programming/development of software components by following Test
Driven Design (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) best
practices.+ Break our existing monolithic applications into more
modern microservices+ Oversee well-engineered source code that
complies with accepted standards passing our quality criteria
(SonarQube, Veracode, OWASP 10).+ Implement future proof API
interface contracts, scalable and realiable micorservices+ Create
and nurture highly available, operationally efficient and scalable
systems (skills in Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Kafka)+
Design and implement full stack solutions (Java/Python, K8S, Kafka,
containers and microservices)+ Realize both short-term and
long-term integration solutions for legacy systems, as well as
confirm performance and usability standards. This includes not only
extending legacy solutions but also assisting in various migration
actvitiy to modern solutions.+ Actively provide and follow up on
software lifecycle (SLC) deliverables (unit test,
security/vulnerability tests, performance tests, integration tests
and, data privacy notices) and troubleshoot/support/ownership of
bug fixs+ Participate actively in the software release process,
from design to implementation and production.+ Enhance delivery
systems with continuous integration and continuous delivery
(CI/CD).+ Coach, encourage, and mentor fellow software
developers**Required Qualifications**+ BSc. in Computer Science or
a similar engineering discipline+ 7+ years of software engineering
experience in building/implementing high performance and scalable
server-side applications.+ 7+ years hand on experience with Data
Engineering.+ Hands on experience on implementing full stack
solutions.+ Hands on experience with container based development
(i.e. Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher) and highly scalable messaging
platforms (i.e. Kafka)+ Hand on experience with Big Data platforms+
Strong experience on modern technologies ( i.e. nodejs, Python,
Java, JavaScript, React,/Angular HTML5, CSS, Sass)+ Applied
experience on Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) and best
practices.+ Hands on experience on TDD, BDD, and XP development
practices+ Experience in the design, development, and deployment of
highly scalable APIs on major cloud platforms+ Hands on experience
working with Lean / Agile development methodologies (XP preferred)+
Hands on experience with Atlassian suite (i.e. Jira, Confluence)
and source code management tools (i.e. Git, BitBucket, Harness)+
Experience and knowledge on standards of data privacy (GDPR, CCPA)
and PCI compliance requirements+ Experience in application
architecture, microservice architecture, event driven
architectures, messaging systems, and domain driven design.Apply
Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)* Participants who complete a
short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO
medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar
year.**Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which
provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:**
www.abbottbenefits.com
(http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)Follow your
career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a
company that can help you build your future and live your best
life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to
employee diversity.Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and
@AbbottGlobal.An Equal Opportunity EmployerAbbot welcomes and
encourages diversity in our workforce.We provide reasonable
accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.To request
accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email
corpjat@abbott.com
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