Principal Technology Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Manage Systems, configurations, and system stability
• Technical engineer overseeing development of Microsoft M365 / Purview solutions to protect company assets
• Provides monitoring and resolution support for alerts generated by Microsoft Purview, DLP and certificate management related systems
• Provides certificate management and maintenance to enterprise systems leveraging tools such as CyberArk and Venafi.
• Provides final oversight on high-risk platform upgrades and migrations.

Compliance and audit

• Owes overall compliance posture for backend systems, ensuring full adherence to FFIEC guidelines, audit requirements, and IT risk management policies
• Collaborates with internal audit, risk, and compliance teams to deliver accurate evidence and remediation plans
• Drives continuous improvement of compliance processes to reduce audit findings and enhance security posture

Daily requests, new builds, cross-team collaboration

• Maintains Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and corporate certificate systems
• Acts as escalation point for major incidents and coordinate with leadership during crisis events
• Delivers and collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise goals
• Champions disaster recovery planning, test execution, and after-action review improvements.

Documentation and Reporting

• Ensures all backend system documentation is accurate, current, and meets audit standards
• Reviews and approve daily/weekly/monthly operational and compliance reports before submission to leadership
• Promotes documentation as a core operational discipline across the team, setting expectations and accountability for quality
• Reports team performance metrics and operational health to IT leadership.

Business and Technology Alignment

• Ensure we are aligning IT solutions with the needs of the business

Required Qualifications

• Education level required: High School / High School Equivalency (GED, HiSET, TASC) / Foreign Equivalent
• Computer Science or related field. Minimum experience required: 10+ Years managing large scale technology
• Minimum experience required: 8+ Years of technical expertise in one or more domain platforms
• 1+ years of coaching/mentoring experience with technology professionals
• Proficient with Microsoft and Linux operating systems
• Proficient with certificate management
• Strong knowledge related to Microsoft 365 environments including Entra, Defender and Purview
• Strong knowledge of Data Governance specifically data classification, data retention, data lifecycle management and data labeling within Microsoft Purview
• Strong knowledge related to data loss prevention policies and governance
• Strong knowledge of Intune managed devices, MDM, MAM, and zero touch deployments
• Working knowledge of Disaster Recovery execution
• Familiarity with Ansible and infrastructure automation workflows
• Demonstrated understanding of system lifecycle, patching, and EOL remediation
• Awareness of FFIEC, SOX, HIPAA, NIST or similar compliance frameworks
• Strong documentation and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education level preferred: Undergraduate Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Technical certifications such as: Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, CompTIA Server+
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)