Overview

Principal Engineer Is responsible for owning one or more technology domains or products, leading engineering team memebers to deliver secure, scalable, and highquality solutions that support business objectives. This role translates enterprise strategy into execution, balances delivery with technical excellence, and partners closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and Business stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities:

Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (TS&EP) across S&T core priorities
Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

Responsibilities

Technology & Delivery Ownership

Own delivery and operational accountability for assigned applications, platforms, integrations, or services
Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and execution plans
Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards (architecture, security, compliance, performance)
Drive modernization, resilience, and technical debt reduction
Handon coding to pick up equal share to contribute to code and projects

Engineering Leadership

Lead a team of engineers, contractors, or system integrators
Provide technical direction, code quality oversight, and design review governance
Establish and enforce engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, secure coding)
Balance speed of delivery with longterm maintainability

Stakeholder & CrossFunctional Partnership

Partner with Product Managers, Architects, Security, Infrastructure, and Vendors
Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to leadership
Support portfolio prioritization and roadmap alignment

Operational Excellence

Ensure availability, performance, and supportability of production systems
Own incident awareness, rootcause remediation, and continuous improvement
Support audits, compliance requirements, and enterprise reviews

Financial & Resource Management

Manage vendor resource allocation
Forecast capacity and skill needs to meet roadmap commitments
Drive cost optimization through architecture and delivery efficiencies

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
Minimum of10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
3+years experience managing developers with 1+ years of managing multiple managers/teams
Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, andobject-orienteddesign
Working knowledge of programming languages - Java and JavaScript
Working knowledge of BackEnd and FrontEnd Frameworks – Spring/SpringBoot/React/React Native and NodeJS ecosystem
Drive Best Practices of Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Architecture Reviews
Metrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLC
Experience withAzure (preferred), Google Cloud,Amazon Web Servicesand cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions

Qualities

Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
Ability to run a large team of software engineers
Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level
Working knowledge of Cloud Native Development including concepts of Message Queues, Distributed Caching, Load Balancing, RDBMS, NoSQL, REST API'S, etc.
Deep knowledge of design patterns, architecture patterns
Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.

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