Principal Engineer, HR & Legal Technology (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

A Principal Engineer acts as a technology leader in all aspects of their daily job. This includes being responsible for architecture, best practices and operational excellence for multiple teams across Nordstrom as well as being the subject matter expert for a specific vertical.  Principal Engineers are extremely proficient and self-starting individual contributors that know when to use coding as a core part of their practice as well as lead code reviews to expand their influence.

The Principal Engineer, HR & Legal Technology will be a member of the Extended Core leadership team, responsible for mentoring other engineers and understanding the greater business context as it relates to their areas of operation. This role functions in a leadership capacity comparable to that of a Senior Manager role, and reports to the VP.

In addition to supporting foundational initiatives including the Workforce Management Transformation underway, this position will also play a key role in the modernization and evolution of our architecture in the HR Tech space, helping us accelerate our contributions to foundational company initiatives, while ensuring we are maintaining operational excellence and meeting compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities...

• Supports the VP of Employee Experience and Director of HR + Legal Tech in developing a tech strategy for the long-term success and improvement of the entire division.
• Collaborates with HR business leaders to understand use cases, explain strategy, and present trade-offs associated with recommended approaches.
• Understands SaaS & Packaged software integration into enterprise systems; with skills to determine and overcome risks using solution design.
• Finds solutions that solve more than one problem without unreasonably increasing developer cognitive load or support responsibility.
• Partner with Program, Product, and Business teams to establish short-term goals and long-term vision, including OKRs and other measurements of success
• Understands event-driven and microservice architectures.
• Understands the power of platforms as a unification model, reducing cognitive load on teams and helping to drive individuals and teams to solve business problems rather than focusing on infrastructure.
• Demonstrates ability to incorporate industry best practices across engineering teams.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize performance issues as well as optimizations and solutions for any application, product, or service.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize, diagnose and fix security defects and issues in any application or service.
• Understands cost trade-offs between technology and business and provides the best technology solution as it relates to telemetry.

A day in the life…

• Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations.
• Contribute to development of new principles and concepts.
• Collaborate with and influence team, partners, and organization.
• Provide thought leadership to ensure that systems and services are designed, and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability, and sustainability.
• Ensure secure coding practices and secure system fundamentals.
• Demonstrate ability to identify key areas to instrument across 
• Mentor the development teams on engineering practices; coach the engineers to develop robust, supportable, secure, scalable software for a high-availability, high- volume system.

You own this if you have…

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent industry
• 10+ years professional experience working in software engineering teams, developing enterprise software systems.
• Excellent proficiency in object-oriented languages, such as Java and C#.
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• Extensive experience delivering complex, multi-tier systems from discovery to implementation to deployment.
• Experience designing and developing REST-based and event-based microservices.
• Experience with developing software architecture, system design, scaling, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies.
• Experience in HR and/or Legal technology domains is a plus.

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We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

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