Principal Engineer - FDE

About the role

The Principal Engineer - FDE works with business and technology stakeholders on the development and delivery of end-to-end application technology products and services for enterprise-wide technology application platforms that are aligned to the organization's strategic objectives and initiatives.

How you will make an impact

• Works with stakeholders to establish the overall applications architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged in a multi-product environment
• Recommends new technology solutions and products are delivered to stakeholders and align with enterprise strategic objectives
• Collaborate with stakeholders and technology to define business requirements
• Oversee the development and delivery of technical and/or functional specifications
• Oversee the technical design reviews and testing to architectural technologies for application solutions and products meet business requirements
• Leading and defining the overall application system technology and architecture development
• Assesses the compatibility and integration of solutions and products
• Works with IT to lead IT Business Transformation application architecture strategy and vision
• Provides continuous consulting services and direction on projects
• Champions and is responsible for architectural standards, guidelines, principles, frameworks, and reference models
• Collaborates with all stakeholders to define architectures for new strategic initiatives

Minimum Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study, and a minimum of 11 years experience; experience with multi-dimensional platforms, and business and technical applications required; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences

• Experience mentoring others, driving teams to achieve results, leading multiple and/or large complex technical projects, and providing troubleshooting support
• Multi-database and/or multi-language experience
• Experience owning the end-to-end technical mission—translating an ambiguous business problem into a working production solution, from architecture and rapid prototyping through integration, testing, deployment, and stabilization
• Hands-on technical leader—designing and building across AI, applications, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy platforms while guiding other FDEs and federated engineering partners
• Experience engineering trust and production readiness from day one—embedding security, privacy, compliance, evaluations, observability, human oversight, and reliability into the solution rather than treating them as late-stage approvals
• Experience turning field delivery into reusable enterprise capability—converting mission learnings into reusable components, integration patterns, evaluation packs, development standards, and platform backlog enhancements that make subsequent missions faster and less expensive