The Principal Engineer will lead the development of technology solutions for user experience, ensuring alignment with business strategies. This role will drive solution approaches which support multiple product teams across the organization. The Principal Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor, working directly with our leadership and development teams to coordinate, plan, develop and implement consistent and repeatable product solutions. This role should be comfortable around senior leadership with the ability to communicate and present solutions clearly. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: Provide enterprise and application architecture direction and guidance to technology. Work with a range of technologies to design and implement application solutions on distributed/legacy systems, coupled with on-premises & cloud-native applications with clear concept of 12-factor app, Agile, BDD, stateless design, APIs, microservices, mainframe, containerization etc. Provide technical knowledge and experience during the planning, execution, and management of core applications Work with various teams on application development and architecture strategy, best practices & patterns, proof of concepts Identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and resiliency throughout the organization. Prepare documentation and messaging to communicate strategies and plans. Participate in the development efforts around DevOps, Monitoring, Alerting, KPIs Participate in testing as it relates to applications. Develop architectural prototypes to reduce risk from new solutions. Provide proper guidance to ensure applications are designed, tested, documented, implemented, enhanced, and maintained according to the enterprise standards and expected service quality Skill/Experience/Education Experience in software products enterprise and mixed technology environment comprised of large scale, highly integrated systems. Ten years of full stack and/or middleware software development. Experience with CI/CD, distributed application architecture, architecture trade-off analysis (ATAM), test strategies, technology optimization, and strategic planning. Ten years working with SCRUM/Agile/iterative methods Seven years of performing solution and enterprise design with a focus on full stack application development in cloud native and on-prem environment Five years hands-on cloud, AWS preferred 5+ years architecting high impact, reliable, applications in a responsive design Direct experience Java, Angular, Node JS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, Restful API, GraphQL, message queues Direct, hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications in a containerized platform such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Preferred Skills and Experience ELK stack and CI/CD pipeline running on GitLab, Urban Code Deploy Experience with IBM legacy systems (zSeries/iSeries) More information:Length of Contract: Through 12/31/25Reason for Opening? Modernizing legacy applicationsTeam Size: 75 Software EngineersDesired Start Date? ASAP recblid btpo7iz9zcdlfu0rns4qt8jvp9uopv