Principal Engineer

What You’ll Do Create scalable, reliable, and high‑performing software solutions that multiply our clients’ results and drive business growth. Modernize and mature existing platforms, drive adoption of best engineering processes, foster innovation, and accelerate productivity. The Principal Engineer takes a hands‑on role, both at the architecture and code level in advancing our technical goals. Key Responsibilities Drive and evangelize architecture for new and existing platforms and applications. Accountable for delivering thought leadership, strategic direction, and consulting, standards, and technology guidance with the goal in achieving business objectives. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance new architectures for both existing business solutions and cutting‑edge innovation solutions. Leads and participates in the development of architecture strategies, frameworks and architecture governance processes. Establishes long‑term software architecture direction to ensure sound investment decisions. Foster close communication with key stakeholders and product owners to improve transparency regarding engineering costs and the development of service level agreements (SLAs). Accelerate the standardization of engineering processes, software libraries, reusable components within the Product Innovation Model across the firm. Develop, train, and drive adoption of modern software engineering principles, guidelines, processes, re‑usable tools, and technologies to maximize efficiency and accelerate productivity for P&P engineers. Ensure alignment, consistency, and uniformity across the firm to help streamline workflows and procedures for product innovation. Enhance engineering processes with a focus on efficiency, collaboration, and scalability across the P&P engineering organization. Advance the maturity of the engineering guild through technical leadership through best practices and adoption of newer technologies. Provide mentorship, create or identify engineering training programs and continuous learning opportunities for all P&P engineers. Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to pinpoint opportunities for technological advancements and creative solutions. Collaborate with leaders and key stakeholders and continue to contribute expertise on overall technical feasibility, technology selection, implementation approach, and architecture of existing and new solutions. #J-18808-Ljbffr AlixPartners