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This role requires mastery in all areas of application development from design to implementation, to monitoring best practices while mentoring and coaching other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity, uncertainty and complex situations. The Principal Application Engineer will support strategic transformational projects, complex enhancements and lead root cause analysis for high-complexity incidents, ensuring long-term fixes and system resilience improvements. They will also oversee vendor engagements where necessary to ensure that they deliver quality technical solutions following the best industry-leading engineering practices.\nTo succeed as a Principal Application Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be highly creative, accountable, collaborative and passionate. 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