Principal Engineer, Architecture & Compound Engineering (US)

Job Description

We're looking for a strategic technology leader who can shape the future of enterprise platforms and engineering practices. As a Principal Engineer, you'll provide deep technical expertise, influence senior leadership, and drive the design of scalable, reusable solutions that support evolving business priorities.

You'll help treat platforms as products—establishing ownership, defining roadmaps, and driving adoption across the organization. You'll guide investment decisions by balancing business value, cost, risk, and delivery considerations while promoting engineering standards that improve consistency and quality across teams.

This is an opportunity to make a broad impact by enabling large developer and business-user communities through modern platforms, tooling, and architecture strategies that advance the organization's technology capabilities.

Depth & Scope

Recognized as an internal and external expert in specific domain(s) within the organization; Spends the majority of their time on technical issues

Sets the direction and oversees the work of other IT professionals as assigned on complex, highly-visible engineering projects of significant profile, strategic importance, and enterprise impact to the Bank

Recognized as an internal expert within the broad engineering field and may have specialized expertise within multiple domains

Provides consultative and strategic guidance to executive leadership

Education & Experience

Bachelor's or Graduate degree

Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)

or 15+ years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience treating platforms or shared capabilities as products
• Exposure to managing reusable platforms or services with defined ownership, roadmaps, and adoption focus
• Prioritization frameworks and decision support
• Experience evaluating competing initiatives and balancing business value, cost, and delivery constraints
• Architecture enablement and standards
• Familiarity with driving consistency in delivery practices, documentation, or engineering standards across teams
• Developer/platform ecosystem experience
• Exposure to enterprise platforms and tooling that support large developer or business-user communities

Physical Requirements

Performing sedentary work – Continuous

Performing multiple tasks – Continuous

Operating standard office equipment – Continuous

Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional

Sitting – Continuous

Standing – Occasional

Walking – Occasional

Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional

Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Never

Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never

Squatting – Never

Kneeling – Never

Crawling – Never

Climbing – Never

Reaching overhead – Never

Reaching forward – Never

Pushing – Never

Pulling – Never

Twisting – Never

Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous

Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous

Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous

Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous