Principal Engineer
Company Name:
Apollo Group
Category : Information Technology
Date : 12/18/2014
### Position Summary
Job ID: 13821
Location: US-AZ - Phoenix
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Department Overview
Apollo Education Group is revolutionizing higher education! Our technology, advanced learning methodologies, and international reach are dramatically accelerating the innovation that is essential to transform higher education throughout the world. Apollo Technology is an intensely dedicated, innovative unit within Apollo Education Group that is focused on providing leading edge technologies to staff and students across all of Apollo's educational institutions
Position Summary
Leads product and software development, providing role model behavior in engineering excellence. Lead projects and innovations that result in substantial and direct revenue and cost savings to the company. This position regularly demonstrates solution agnostic leadership in solving challenging problems.
Primary Accountabilities
NOTE: The primary accountabilities below are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the primary accountabilities listed below. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented in the incumbents' performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents' immediate supervisor or manager.
Demonstrates leadership through solving difficult technical issues.
Provides oversight of implementation, providing assurance that key requirements are preserved and those gaps are understood and communicated to stakeholders as appropriate.
Engineering leadership, including developing and documenting technical standards and best practices and enforcing such standards and best practices by mentoring and coaching the team through the review processes.
Leadership in efforts involving strong technical expertise, with responsibilities that may include setting goals and developing strategies, problem analysis and uncovering requirements, developing and tracking roadmaps and plans, leading build/buy decisions and vendor selection efforts.
Ensures implementation governance across projects, applications and infrastructure and recommends design decisions to the architect for that particular domain
Accountable for the integrity of the solutions delivered in production to the business, students and faculty
Leads product and software development
Leads technical presentations, addressing various topics including but not limited to technology in general, design work performed or to be performed, technical standards and best practices, industry trends and up-and-coming technology, methods, techniques, etc., retrospectives and lessons learned
Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
Extensive knowledge and understanding of operating systems and database environments as normally obtained through the completion of a Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or related field.
A strong foundation and/or professional expertise in one or more technology disciplines, seen as the go to person by their peers for the respective domains.
Ten years related systems experience to perform the duties listed above.
The ability to lead through influence by operating with trust and integrity. The behavior results in a positive image of the organization both inside and outside of Apollo.
Ability to understand and analyze business problems, and a strong inclination to achieve such understanding before implementing solutions.
Ability to understand their work within the context of the Big Picture and help the team connect the dots among the key building blocks of a solution.
General understanding of issues surrounding designing for the data center, including availability, redundancy and fault-tolerance; performance and load balancing; monitoring and diagnostics; and security.
Ability to identify and challenge assumptions.
Stakeholder management, driving completion of successful meetings, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
Open mindedness and curiosity about alternative technical approaches, products and platforms.
Strong oral and written communications skills. Must be able to engage the business on its own terms, and must be able to engage technical teams across different technical disciplines on their terms as well.
A passion for technology and a passion for solving business problems.
Strength in educating and coaching less senior technical staff.
Basic Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of formal education and directly related experience, is required.
A minimum of 10 years of Java development experience
A minimum of 8 years of experience with Spring, HTML and CSS
A minimum of 8 years of experience developing and consuming Web services and integration patterns
A minimum of 8 years of experience developing applications end to end
Additional Qualifications
Knowledge of design patterns and architecture principles
Experience with a CRM system will be an advantage
Experience working in a contact center environment
EEO Statement
Apollo Education Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes diversity. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability, VEVRAA Federal Contractor, and PVS.
Corporate Statement
Apollo Education Group, Inc. was founded in 1973 in response to a gradual shift in higher education demographics from a student population dominated by youth to one in which approximately half the students are adults and over 80 percent of whom work full-time. Apollo's founder, John Sperling, believed -- and events proved him right -- that lifelong employment with a single employer would be replaced by lifelong learning and employment with a variety of employers. Lifelong learning requires an institution dedicated solely to the education of working adults.
Today, Apollo Education Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, Western International University, Apollo Lightspeed and College for Financial Planning has established itself as a leading provider of higher education programs for working adults by focusing on servicing the needs of the working adult. Apollo Education Group is the largest education service provider in North America and has the world's largest educational social network. Apollo is building state of art learning platforms in creating a virtual and highly engaging learning experience. The learning platforms which are built as a cloud-based (Education-as-a-Service) bring a more scientific and social approach to the learning experience. We are changing the way people learn and interact via advanced, scalable learning solutions.
Subsidiary Statement
Apollo Education Group, Inc., is a leading provider of higher education. We have a global network of subsidiaries that include University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, Carnegie Learning, College for Financial Planning, Apollo Education Services, Institute for Professional Development, and Western International University. In 1973, Dr. John Sperling founded Apollo Education Group to reach out to working adults and offer them lifelong learning through an institution dedicated to their education. Today, our subsidiaries provide programs that are up-to-date and relevant to our students and to an evolving world.Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Apollo Group
Category : Information Technology
Date : 12/18/2014
### Position Summary
Job ID: 13821
Location: US-AZ - Phoenix
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Department Overview
Apollo Education Group is revolutionizing higher education! Our technology, advanced learning methodologies, and international reach are dramatically accelerating the innovation that is essential to transform higher education throughout the world. Apollo Technology is an intensely dedicated, innovative unit within Apollo Education Group that is focused on providing leading edge technologies to staff and students across all of Apollo's educational institutions
Position Summary
Leads product and software development, providing role model behavior in engineering excellence. Lead projects and innovations that result in substantial and direct revenue and cost savings to the company. This position regularly demonstrates solution agnostic leadership in solving challenging problems.
Primary Accountabilities
NOTE: The primary accountabilities below are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the primary accountabilities listed below. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented in the incumbents' performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents' immediate supervisor or manager.
Demonstrates leadership through solving difficult technical issues.
Provides oversight of implementation, providing assurance that key requirements are preserved and those gaps are understood and communicated to stakeholders as appropriate.
Engineering leadership, including developing and documenting technical standards and best practices and enforcing such standards and best practices by mentoring and coaching the team through the review processes.
Leadership in efforts involving strong technical expertise, with responsibilities that may include setting goals and developing strategies, problem analysis and uncovering requirements, developing and tracking roadmaps and plans, leading build/buy decisions and vendor selection efforts.
Ensures implementation governance across projects, applications and infrastructure and recommends design decisions to the architect for that particular domain
Accountable for the integrity of the solutions delivered in production to the business, students and faculty
Leads product and software development
Leads technical presentations, addressing various topics including but not limited to technology in general, design work performed or to be performed, technical standards and best practices, industry trends and up-and-coming technology, methods, techniques, etc., retrospectives and lessons learned
Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
Extensive knowledge and understanding of operating systems and database environments as normally obtained through the completion of a Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or related field.
A strong foundation and/or professional expertise in one or more technology disciplines, seen as the go to person by their peers for the respective domains.
Ten years related systems experience to perform the duties listed above.
The ability to lead through influence by operating with trust and integrity. The behavior results in a positive image of the organization both inside and outside of Apollo.
Ability to understand and analyze business problems, and a strong inclination to achieve such understanding before implementing solutions.
Ability to understand their work within the context of the Big Picture and help the team connect the dots among the key building blocks of a solution.
General understanding of issues surrounding designing for the data center, including availability, redundancy and fault-tolerance; performance and load balancing; monitoring and diagnostics; and security.
Ability to identify and challenge assumptions.
Stakeholder management, driving completion of successful meetings, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
Open mindedness and curiosity about alternative technical approaches, products and platforms.
Strong oral and written communications skills. Must be able to engage the business on its own terms, and must be able to engage technical teams across different technical disciplines on their terms as well.
A passion for technology and a passion for solving business problems.
Strength in educating and coaching less senior technical staff.
Basic Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of formal education and directly related experience, is required.
A minimum of 10 years of Java development experience
A minimum of 8 years of experience with Spring, HTML and CSS
A minimum of 8 years of experience developing and consuming Web services and integration patterns
A minimum of 8 years of experience developing applications end to end
Additional Qualifications
Knowledge of design patterns and architecture principles
Experience with a CRM system will be an advantage
Experience working in a contact center environment
EEO Statement
Apollo Education Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes diversity. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability, VEVRAA Federal Contractor, and PVS.
Corporate Statement
Apollo Education Group, Inc. was founded in 1973 in response to a gradual shift in higher education demographics from a student population dominated by youth to one in which approximately half the students are adults and over 80 percent of whom work full-time. Apollo's founder, John Sperling, believed -- and events proved him right -- that lifelong employment with a single employer would be replaced by lifelong learning and employment with a variety of employers. Lifelong learning requires an institution dedicated solely to the education of working adults.
Today, Apollo Education Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, Western International University, Apollo Lightspeed and College for Financial Planning has established itself as a leading provider of higher education programs for working adults by focusing on servicing the needs of the working adult. Apollo Education Group is the largest education service provider in North America and has the world's largest educational social network. Apollo is building state of art learning platforms in creating a virtual and highly engaging learning experience. The learning platforms which are built as a cloud-based (Education-as-a-Service) bring a more scientific and social approach to the learning experience. We are changing the way people learn and interact via advanced, scalable learning solutions.
Subsidiary Statement
Apollo Education Group, Inc., is a leading provider of higher education. We have a global network of subsidiaries that include University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, Carnegie Learning, College for Financial Planning, Apollo Education Services, Institute for Professional Development, and Western International University. In 1973, Dr. John Sperling founded Apollo Education Group to reach out to working adults and offer them lifelong learning through an institution dedicated to their education. Today, our subsidiaries provide programs that are up-to-date and relevant to our students and to an evolving world.Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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