Principal Software Engineer (Digital Transformation Solutions)

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Digital Transformation Solutions) to drive the architecture, design, development, and operation of large-scale, business-critical applications. In this role, you will evaluate and deliver the appropriate technical approach to a wide variety of challenges across market sectors, teams, and technologies. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define requirements, assess feasibility, and translate complex business needs into scalable, high-quality technical solutions.

This is a unique opportunity to join and help shape our technology practice at an early stage. As the technical lead for software engineering, you will establish and enforce best practices, standards, and governance across architecture, design, quality, scalability, and maintainability -while ensuring alignment with compliance, data privacy, accessibility, and budget requirements.

You will serve as both a strategic leader and a hands-on contributor: mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, and actively participating in the design and delivery of solutions. You will play a key role in building our engineering capabilities, setting a high bar for excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

We are looking for a highly motivated, adaptable leader with deep expertise in software engineering principles and a full-stack mindset -someone who is comfortable working across technologies, eager to learn new tools and frameworks, and capable of leading teams to deliver impactful, client-focused solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Leads service improvement initiatives and activities to increase customer satisfaction. This includes developing strategic plans, influencing virtual teams to drive execution of initiatives.
• Works with IT solutions, architecture, utility, and cloud services
• Acts as technical lead for enterprise data management platform implementation for CRM redesign.
• Manages and creating user accounts, directory access, and server permissions.
• Manages the in-house services related to the internet.
• Trains and educates customers on how to use certain software and hardware as requested.
• Performs development and architecture for software, database, third-party integration, internationalization and infrastructure.
• Sponsors roadmap, physical of failures correlation between system hardware, firmware and software, network topology infrastructure, reliability simulation at system and network level
• Contributes in the development of marketing and collateral material relating to technology services or products. Leads business development and planning efforts, including calculation of cost, risk, and scope, and support local offices in preparation of responses to RFPs, RFIs and RFQs by providing expertise on specialized technologies and/or practices.
• Provides single point of contact for technology projects and products and/or leads specific technical or functional portions of a project. Determines scope of work and objectives; estimate project costs and prepare proposals and contracts. Actively manages project budget, schedule, communications and documentation. Coordinates work efforts; reviews work performed, and communicates regularly with department leadership on project progress.
• Applies expert business skills and consulting methodologies to collect and analyze data to determine the applicability, functionality, and viability of new technologies.
• Advocates for internal and external clients by establishing user groups and acting as a liaison between users and the technology office.
• Supports the identification of internal resources and external contractors to meet project requirements.
• Researches new and emerging technologies and assess feasibility applications to current and future business needs. Analyzes business unit activities and trends and compares analyses against service standards and best practices. Presents findings to business unit leadership and identifies and implements strategies that will address tactical and strategic goals.
• Works with clients and technology office staff to identify, analyze, design, develop and implement fully integrated solutions of moderate to high complexity that support HNTB’s products, service and/or business processes.
• Develops detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions, and steps required to develop