Senior Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Through technology, our teams at Nuance Healthcare seek to transform patient care and alleviate provider burnout. Each day, the work our teams deliver has a meaningful impact on the lives of providers and patients.
Our teams are growing to meet the opportunities (and exciting challenges) of developing high quality products and services that bring positive change to Healthcare. We're seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Engineer who is self-motivated, strong collaborator, and has a growth mindset.
This is a key role in the development and maintenance of a Nuance platform-based solution that enables a large network of workflow-integrated AI applications while leveraging Nuance's proven diagnostic imaging solutions to provide critical information for personalized care decisions that increase efficiencies and lower healthcare costs.
Responsibilities

• Design and deliver software and infrastructure to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of your services.
• Work with team leads and architect to define, develop, and deploy best practices in all engineering areas across the full development stack.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Consistently deliver results per commitments
• React to issues with mission critical services and mitigate these with a goal towards automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Work in a distributed environment with teams around the world.
• Work across functions with peers to ensure collaboration on shared goals.
• Analyze existing systems and propose improvements, paying particular attention to latency, accuracy and extensibility.
• Perform tasks related to securing services and infrastructure and incorporating a security centered mindset towards products, tools, and processes.
• Define KPIs to monitor and maintain required service levels.
• Stay educated on existing, emerging technologies and develop POCs to evaluate these for fit.
• Support team efforts in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes.

Qualifications
Minimum years of work experience

• 6+ years software development experience
• 10+ years software industry experience

Education
Bachelor's, Master's, or PHD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
Required skills

• Deep experience with agile methodologies; continuous integration, delivery and deployment to production.
• Complete software life cycle experience, including deployment to production.
• Experience with building backend, distributed systems in one or more general purpose programming languages.
• Strong focus on quality right from the design phase, incorporating best practices and engineering for testability.
• Must be able to work in a distributed environment and balance competing priorities.
• Experience securing products, tools, and processes.
• Familiarity with service and cloud-based architectures.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, required for communication with globally distributed Nuance teams.
• Passion for software engineering, design, and performance.
• Excellent technical, analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong people and negotiation skills, able to listen to disparate technical opinions and build consensus.

Preferred skills

• Embraces software development processes and design principles.
• Strong background in DevOps concepts and tools.
• Familiarity with service and cloud-based architectures.
• Experience with software load balancers, message queues, and other task distribution technologies.
• Experience with data lake and analytics technologies.
• Experience delivering highly available and highly scalable solutions.
• Experience with different techniques for HA and DR.

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