Principal Engineer - Cloud

The Principal Engineer for lending systems will serve as a practice lead, system architect, subject matter expert, and an advisor for the lending portfolio across the organization. This individual must become knowledgeable in our current on-prem systems and provide recommendations around product architecture, design, development, and modernization. The Principal Engineer will be consulted on lending strategy, design, engineering, data flows, and integration efforts providing technical expertise on innovative solutions that leverage the latest technologies. The Principal Engineer will create and implement solutions for lending systems and draw out functional and non-functional requirements from business and technology subject matter experts. This individual will manage the architecture and delivery of products and platforms requiring close collaboration with the Technology Product Owner/Managers, Development Leads, Business Product Owners in consumer lending, vendors, and dependent platform and product teams. The Principal Engineer will collaborate with product teams and stake holders on roadmaps and participate in agile ceremonies, reviewing, and analyzing complex strategies for product functionality ensuring feature delivery prioritization. 

•   Provide subject matter expertise in distributed and cloud technologies including Azure Cloud, MuleSoft Anypoint, REST API, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, etc. to support delivery of lending modernization initiatives.
Lead solution design, system architecture, technical requirements, and design specifications applying modern product development and systems engineering best practices to the implementation of lending solutions.
•   Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating systems environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external controls, and outputs.
Establish and evolve the architectural runway including technical enablers and architectural experiments / proof of concepts aligned with business priorities.
•   Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
•   Drive the development/execution including effective use of anchor platform technologies to support efficient and effective technology adoption to deliver optimal business outcomes.
•   Perform fit-gap analysis on current-state technology options and provide recommendations supporting the transformation to modern lending platforms that align with business needs and objectives.
•   Provide detailed information for technology selection, implementation techniques, and tools.
•   Lead the implementation of a flexible change management methodology/framework including DevSecOps Continuous Integration & Delivery practices in Azure DevOps.
•   Consult on testing strategy including unit testing, performance testing, test automation, system integration testing, etc.
•   Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering teams on the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of distributed and cloud systems.
•   Establish and manage relationships with technology vendors on lending system architecture and design with emphasis on achieving operational effectiveness and ensuring service level agreements are established and met.
•   Provide input into the lending modernization roadmaps and dependent cross-cutting initiatives.
•   Provide oversight in the application of the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices.
•   Collaborate with business and technology team members to support the development of the product backlog including participating in backlog grooming/refinement, PI Planning, and Sprint Planning.
•   Contribute to production support activities including deployments, break-fix resolution, and incident management.
•   Troubleshoot and resolve issues, work across teams to deliver solutions, and provide technical support and consultation.
•   Perform incident / problem root cause analysis to identify and resolve issues causing recurring technical problems.
•   Serve as an advisor on projects concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
•   Provide input into financial planning including budgetary recommendations.
•   Provide guidance to leadership and team members on technology best practices.
•   Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a coach and mentor.
•   Monitor and analyze metrics to ensure optimal business and technical outcomes.
•   Review solutions to ensure alignment with business objectives, organization standards and guidelines, and industry best practices.
•   Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operations and initiate corrective action.
•   Identify an