Principal Software Engineer Google Cloud Platform

NTT DATA Services seeks a Principal Software Engineer with Google Cloud Platform Architecture experience to join our team remotely in the USA. We focus on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation, delivering value and innovation to improve business outcomes. Role Responsibilities

• Product Focus & Innovation: Closely collaborate with engineering teams to architect and develop resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, compliant, and highly available products, while researching and prototyping new architectural patterns for AI integration.
• Discovery & Technical Roadmap: Contribute toward technical roadmap refinement by researching new technologies, tools, and frameworks for potential adoption, particularly related to Generative AI and Agentic Architectures.
• Standards/Best Practices: Identify, document, communicate, champion, and drive adoption for standards, policies, processes, best practices, and aligned software architecture/software engineering points of view, including new paradigms introduced by AI systems.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and feedback to team members to grow overall team capabilities, especially in emerging technical areas.
• Outcome-Oriented: Display ownership of outcomes. Provide trusted expertise for effort estimates and offer alternate approach recommendations with tradeoffs/risks where appropriate.
• Industry Knowledge: Stay current on industry standards and share insights with the team.

Required Skills/Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of overall hands-on software engineering experience
• Minimum 6+ years of experience and expertise in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs
• Minimum 1+ year of hands-on experience in Java/Spring Boot and Python
• Minimum of 1+ year expertise in microservice architectural patterns and design
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferences

• Generative AI Platforms: Experience with Google Cloud's AI platform services, such as Vertex AI, Agent Builder, and related Generative AI tools (e.g., LangChain).
• Data & Analytics: Experience with data warehousing and analytics platforms, particularly Google BigQuery.
• Healthcare Data: Experience with healthcare data standards, such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Innovation & Prototyping: Ability to drive innovation, research emerging technologies, and build rapid prototypes/proofs-of-concept.
• Relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j), SQL, and database/schema design.
• Experience with GCP compute platforms, including container orchestration (Google Kubernetes Engine - GKE) and serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
• Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g., Rabbit, GCP Pub/Sub).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

About NTT DATA Services NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a reach across over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients' long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more. Equal Opportunity NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team. Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting hourly range for this remote role is ($92 - $97/hourly). This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life, and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.