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Principal Platform Engineer - Software Engineer

Truist
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 May 2025

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Principal Platform Engineer partners with a wide cross-section of
partners to create innovative and compelling experiences for our
Truist clients. Responsible for defining, championing, building,
delivering, and measuring products/platforms and strategies for their
segment. This role manages and leads high performing product
management teams consisting of product managers, product owners,
and product analysts. This role is pivotal in building resilient,
observable, and policy-compliant software systems that power
mission-critical business functions. Leveraging technologies like
Java, Python, Helm, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, you
will deliver reusable software patterns with embedded controls to
meet enterprise security, compliance, and risk management
standards. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can
translate architectural vision into production-ready, scalable code with
a focus on governance-as-code and automation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time. 
Responsible for leading a team of product managers and product owners, setting direction and priorities for products, services, and experiences. 
1. Responsible for understanding industry landscape, competitive environment, and voice of client
2. Develop product roadmaps in collaboration with Relationship Managers and Line of Business (LOB) partners.
3. Manage teams that develop and groom backlog from EPICS down to user stories in partnership with LOB, User Experience/User Interface, Content, Technology, and Operations
4. Partner with Tech Agile teams on development, rollout, and post-production support
5. Partner with Legal, Risk, & Compliance on new product development and remediation when applicable
6. Partner with associated LOBs, marketing, operation, and readiness teams on commercialization and rollout
7. Responsible for the client experience/results/KPIs of assigned platforms
8. Manage product pricing, including modeling pricing changes
9. Manage annual budget, including monthly forecasting
10. Hire, mentor and manage team members; proactively provide timely, candid, and constructive performance feedback in efforts to cultivate appropriate talent pool to ensure adequate bench strength and succession planning
11. Responsible for leading teams across related but disparate functions to support successful deployment of new products and integrated experiences


QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. A minimum of seven+ years in a combination of professional services and financial services industry
2. Five+ years of product management experience
3. Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices
4. Deep and broad experience in digital banking, financial services, or other complex transactional services
5. Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and large scale projects
6. Demonstrable understanding and application of digital concepts and technology
7. Ability to lead initiatives throughout the software developme

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