Principal Engineer

Solve complex enterprise problems by developing, designing, configuring, and implementing data platform engineering strategies and solutions to meet objectives for the enterprise direction, and large projects across multiple technologies. Provide technical leadership to team, vendor, and contractor resources, defining and implementing and managing standard solutions across platforms. Partner with architecture to own and define strategic vision and roadmaps of data platforms in cloud. Oversee non-standard exceptions and problem management solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline patterns that encapsulate best practices and guardrails to help developement teams comply with the organizations standards. Partner with application development leaders to drive adoption of these patterns throughout the organization.  Instrument pipelines and capture telemetry data to improve software development processes.

• Evaluate new tools and technologies, assess impacts of tooling changes, and evolve the DevSecOps stack to keep pace with changing business needs and software development techniques. Independently oversee assignments in the design, detailed configuration, integration, and upgrade of existing and future technologies within DevSecOps. Work with architecture and application teams to strategize, plan, design, review, and approve robust, stable, scalable, and manageable designs. Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for new technology deployments and upgrades. 
• Manage effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, architecture, application team members, vendors, infrastructure, monitoring, procurement, security, and all other cross commit teams to deliver solutions that take advantage of Cloud/Post Prem direction, while ensuring that service level commitments are met. Mentor, coach, influence, and contribute to the development of peers and other team members.
• Create and approve solutions that span multiple tech capabilities. Oversee new solutions through POC processes. Identify and contribute to use case creation. Recommend, deploy, and document design strategies and solutions for complex software/hardware/network engineering problems.  Independently identify key issues, patterns, and deviations during analysis. Recommend robust solutions utilizing pragmatic judgment, creativity, and in-depth technical knowledge and evaluation techniques.
• Collaborate with application and architecture team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives and long term portfolio roadmap. Utilize performance data and historical metrics to effectively plan for growth needs; upgrades, migrations, optimizations, and new implementations; identify and resolve efficiency issues; and improve overall functionality. Manage hand-over design solutions and provide testing support and validation prior to release of new and upgraded technologies.
• Create and maintain detailed design documentation, diagrams, engineering specifications, build changes, models, troubleshooting and support guides, systems metrics, and overall project information, including key deliverables. Oversee the technical correctness and completeness of engineering designs and artifacts. Ensure that build activities are completed per engineering diagrams that were drafted and approved for the project. Redirect build activities, as needed.
• Provide thought leadership and influence the refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure the optimal performance and availability of technologies. Promote re-use and develop consistent technical build, implementation, and support processes. Oversee the validation of, and adherence to, defined standards. Ensure designs are secure and the closure of open problem tickets. Ensure improvements align with existing principles and Systems Development Life Cycle methodologies, engineering principles, and portfolio long term roadmap.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business. Effectively present the value proposition of business-appropriate emerging technologies to technology leadership. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Engineering or other related degree focus. 
• 7-10+ years of experience in engineering and integration technology and/or software development, progressing in complexity and responsibility. Proven success working with other design engineers and architects teams.  
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational teams and levels.  
• Proven high reasoning aptitude and ability to