Principal Software Engineer - Remote
3 days ago
Barcelona
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. The firm has more than 7,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Cloud) to join our Retail Solutions team in Spain, with Madrid or Barcelona being our preferred office locations, but we can offer some flexibility. Retail Solutions is a new kind of team within Oliver Wyman: an internal product startup that blends a strong engineering culture and an obsession for creating products that deliver the world’s biggest retail impact. Our suite of retail tools empowers merchandising teams to address complex analytical challenges and make the most important commercial decisions at the heart of every retailer: optimizing assortments, promotional programs, and pricing strategies. The Retail Solutions engineering teams build and operate our SaaS products, enabled by our cloud Platform. We are looking for an experienced Engineer to join our Application-Enablement team , serving as the bridge between our SaaS product engineering and our Platform teams. This is a hands-on role that requires a strong SW engineering and cloud engineering foundation. And since the Application-Enablement team will often spearhead the adoption of new patterns, strategies and platform functionality, you will also have the leadership and organizational skills to see these adopted across our Engineering teams. You will feed these into the roadmap of the application-enablement team, balancing short-term impact and long-term vision. As a Principal Engineer in our application-enablement team, you will: Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-team collaboration across the Engineering organization, maximizing the impact of the application-enablement team initiatives. Drive the roadmap of the application-enablement team, in collaboration with Retail leadership and engineering teams, balancing short-term impact with long-term vision. Champion best practices in cloud architectures such as 12-factor apps, observability, and others, to meet high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency needs of our products and platform Lead the adoption of solutions, patterns and strategies that improve efficiency and development experience across our Engineering organization. Evaluate and integrate existing or emerging cloud services and open-source technologies to enhance our products and platform capabilities and maintain a competitive edge. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring and leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions and operational excellence. You’ll have a solid understanding of software, cloud and platform engineering fundamentals, an ability to deliver new solutions into production and a strong desire to learn, are key to succeeding in the role, rather than perfectly matching our stack. 7+ years of engineering experience overall, with at least 2-3 years in a similar Principal SW Engineering or SW Architect roles. ~ Our codebase uses primarily JavaScript and Python, across various web applications, backend services and analytical processes, and leverages frameworks such as Express.js, Vue, Flask or Pandas. ~ you should be comfortable writing code and building solutions. ~ You will be comfortable with different architectural styles and with concepts such as DDD, service-mesh or data-mesh. ~ Experience building, deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes - we use AKS with a supporting range of tools like argoCD, argo-workflows, helm, Dapr, and more. ~ Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps patterns in order to manage cloud infrastructure. Ideally, you are familiar with Terraform. ~ Familiarity with database engines such as MongoDB or PostgreSQL ~ Familiarity with large data and data warehouses/lakehouses, ideally with Databricks. ~ A strong understanding of software engineering best practices such as version control, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and security. ~ Relevant certifications such as Azure's Solutions Architect or Kubernetes’ CKA are a bonus but not required. We believe that by mixing our diverse backgrounds and experiences with the ingredients below, we have a recipe for building great software. Impact : Our team is growing fast to deliver on ambitious plans to bring our product suite to the largest retailers on the planet in collaboration with Oliver Wyman’s Consumer, Technology and Telecoms (CTT) practice. Decision-making is as transparent as we know how to make it. We don’t always get it right, but we get better every day. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees - To learn more, please follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter: OliverWyman. Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.
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