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Principal Engineer - Digital Platforms

Hancock Whitney · Gulfport, MS · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes JOB FUNCTION / SUMMARY (which is about the role). Then ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES (responsibilities). Then MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE (requirements/qualifications). Also there are some skills listed (like communication, strategic planning, etc.) Could be part of Skills. There's no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not include those sections. Also we should not include headings with filler. So we will produce sections: About the role (maybe using JOB FUNCTION / SUMMARY). Responsibilities (ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES). Requirements (MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE). Possibly Skills (derived from the list of abilities). But we need to ensure we don't invent content. The posting includes many skill-like statements: "Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and solve complex technical challenges.", "Strong communication and strategic planning skills.", "Ability to lead through technical expertise and influence in a senior individual-contributor role without direct reports." Also "Experience with modern engineering practices preferred (DevOps, CI/CD, API, LLM, etc.)". Those could be considered Skills. However the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could combine Requirements and Skills into one? But we have separate headings allowed. We need to decide if we have enough specific content for Skills section. The posting includes many skill statements; we could extract them into a Skills section. However we must not repeat content already in Requirements. The Requirements section includes education, experience, knowledge. Skills could be separate list of abilities like communication, strategic planning, influencing, etc. That seems substantive. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, mental/physical requirements (though those are requirements but generic). The mental/physical requirements are generic; we should drop them as they are boilerplate? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The mental/physical requirements might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's generic physical requirements. Might be considered boilerplate? Not sure. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. It doesn't explicitly say to remove physical requirements. However they are generic and could be considered boilerplate. But they are part of the posting; we need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. If we drop them, we might be removing substantive info (though generic). The instruction says remove duplicated lines, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Physical requirements are not listed there. So we should keep them? However they are generic and could be considered filler. But they are not explicitly prohibited. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The physical requirements are thin; maybe we could omit them as they are not substantive. But risk of violating "Preserve ALL substantive information". Are they substantive? They are generic ability to lift 10 pounds etc. Might be considered not substantive for a senior engineer role. I'd lean to omit them as they are boilerplate-ish. However the instruction didn't list them as boilerplate to remove. Safer to keep them? But they'd create a thin section maybe "Physical Requirements". Not a allowed heading unless we map to something like "Requirements". Could incorporate into Requirements section as bullet points. But they'd be generic; still we could include. Better to follow instruction: remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Keep everything else. So we should keep the mental/physical requirements as part of the content. But we need to decide where to place them. Could be under Requirements or a separate section "Physical Requirements". Not a standard heading; we could incorporate into Requirements as bullet points. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (which includes education, experience, knowledge, skills, physical/mental). Could also have Skills separate but risk thin. Given "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones", I'd combine Skills into Requirements or maybe have a Skills section if we have enough distinct skill statements. Let's extract skill statements: - Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and solve complex technical challenges. - Strong communication and strategic planning skills. - Ability to lead through technical expertise and influence in a senior individual-contributor role without direct reports. - Experience with modern engineering practices preferred (DevOps, CI/CD, API, LLM, etc.). - Expert technical knowledge and advanced engineering practices. - Proven ability to independently lead complex production investigations, architecture decisions, platform changes, vendor escalations, and cross-functional technical initiatives. - Experience communicating complex technical risks and recommendations to senior business and technology leaders. These are substantive. Could be a Skills section. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (education/experience/knowledge), Skills. We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Now we need to format: Use

for section headings. Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. We need to decide what is prose vs list. The summary/job function is prose; we can put in

    . The responsibilities are a list of duties; each sentence starts with a verb; we can make

    • . The requirements (education/experience/knowledge) are a list; we can make
      • . The skills also list; we can make
        • . The mental/physical requirements could be list as well. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all bullet points from the posting. Let's extract the content exactly. First, JOB FUNCTION / SUMMARY: "The Principal Engineer is a senior-level individual contributor and recognized subject matter expert responsible for enterprise-wide technical leadership, engineering strategy, and complex solution guidance across multiple systems, platforms, and domains. This role influences architecture, standards, modernization efforts, and strategic initiatives without direct people management responsibilities. Serving as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders, this position provides technical leadership ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with organizational objectives." We'll put that in a

          . Next, ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES list: - Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for assigned technologies, platforms, or engineering domains. - Define and influence technical standards, design patterns, best practices, and long-term roadmaps. - Lead technical direction for strategic initiatives, ensuring scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable solutions. - Lead complex solution design, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization efforts. - Review and approve high-impact technical decisions, architectures, and implementation approaches. - Evaluate emerging technologies and guide modernization initiatives. - Partner with technology teams and business leaders to align technical solutions with enterprise priorities. - Influence cross-functional teams and communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. - Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through training, documentation, standards, and continuous improvement. - Lead conversion and/or integration workstreams related to mergers, acquisitions, or strategic business events. We'll put each as

        • . Next, MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE: We need to capture each bullet point. The posting lists many items separated by periods. Let's parse: "Bachelor’s degree in a related field (i.e., Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience. 10 years of progressively technical experience in complex enterprise environments. Prior experience as a Principal, Staff, Lead Engineer, or comparable senior technical expert. Extensive experience supporting complex, business-critical digital banking, branch banking, or financial-services technology platforms. Demonstrated expertise in online banking, mobile banking, online account opening, banker-assisted servicing, bill payment, funds transfers, authentication, identity verification, and related banking integrations. Strong understanding of banking operations, client onboarding, account servicing, transaction processing, fraud controls, regulatory requirements, and branch workflows. Advanced understanding of enterprise application architecture, APIs, system integrations, customer and account data flows, vendor-hosted solutions, security controls, and production-support practices. Experience with modern engineering practices preferred (DevOps, CI/CD, API, LLM, etc.). Expert technical knowledge and advanced engineering practices. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and solve complex technical challenges. Strong communication and strategic planning skills. Banking or financial services experience preferred. M&A integration experience preferred. Demonstrated experience serving as the senior technical subject-matter expert or escalation point for highly integrated applications. Proven ability to independently lead complex production investigations, architecture decisions, platform changes, vendor escalations, and cross-functional technical initiatives. Experience communicating complex technical risks and recommendations to senior business and technology leaders. Ability to lead through technical expertise and influence in a senior individual-contributor role without direct reports." Note: Some of these overlap with skills; but we will keep them in Requirements as they are listed under MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE. However some are more skill-like. But we must preserve all; we can keep them in Requirements. Then we might not need a separate Skills section. However the instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. If we put all those in Requirements, it will be a long list but still one section. That's okay. But we also have the ESSENTIAL MENTAL & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS list: - Ability to travel if required to perform the essential job functions - Ability to work under stress and meet deadlines - Ability to operate related equipment to perform the essential job functions - Ability to read and interpret a document if required to perform the essential job functions - Ability to lift/move/carry approximately 10 pounds if required to perform the essential job functions. If the employee is unable to lift/move/carry this weight and can be accommodated without causing the department/division an “undue hardship” then the employee must be accommodated; hence omitting lifting/moving/carrying as a physical requirement. We need to preserve that. It's a bit wordy; we can keep as
        • items. Thus we will have sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities, Requirements (which includes education/experience/knowledge and mental/physical). Could we separate mental/physical into its own section? Not a standard heading; but we could still use

          for "Physical & Mental Requirements". The allowed headings list includes only those specific ones; but the instruction says use

          for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use

          for section headings (e.g. those). It might be okay to add other headings, but better to stick to those. Since physical/mental requirements are not in the list, we could incorporate them into Requirements. Thus final HTML:

          About the role

          ...

          Responsibilities

          • ...
          • ...

          Requirements

          • ...
          • ...
          We must not repeat the job title as a heading. Already we are not. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed that. Now ensure we preserve all substantive information from the posting. Let's double-check we didn't miss any. From JOB FUNCTION / SUMMARY we captured three sentences. From ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES we captured 10 bullet points. From MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE we captured many

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