Principal Engineer I

Role Overview

• Define and sustain the technical vision and long-term product strategy, translating market challenges, growth ambitions and Line of Business priorities into scalable architectures, platforms and technical capabilities aligned with business objectives.
• Design and evolve reference architectures, design patterns and engineering practices that address concrete portfolio problems — such as scalability, time-to-market, operational efficiency and application modernization — ensuring reuse, sustainability and reduction of complexity over time.
• Lead the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence into engineering solutions, ensuring services are conceived as AI-Engineered by design, addressing real LoB use cases (automation, efficiency, quality, customer experience and value generation).
• Evaluate, recommend and guide the adoption of technologies, frameworks and tools based on measurable impact to Line of Business growth, scalability viability, total cost of ownership and strategic alignment — avoiding opportunistic adoptions disconnected from strategy.
• Serve as an institutional reference in assessing market technology trends, translating relevant movements into actionable technical theses, recommending their incorporation where there is clear impact on solution evolution, competitive differentiation and value delivered to the Line of Business customers.
• Act as technical sponsor and final decision instance on large-scale, high-impact engineering initiatives, ensuring architectural coherence, strategic alignment and solution sustainability over time, without taking direct project management responsibility.
• Define and guide strategies for modernizing legacy applications, prioritizing initiatives with the greatest impact on scalability, operational efficiency, risk reduction and accelerated time-to-market for the Line of Business.
• Design and enable scalable and efficient solutions, reducing reliance on manual effort through intelligent automation and applied AI.
• Establish criteria, metrics and indicators for quality, performance, security and resilience, ensuring deliveries meet corporate standards and business objectives, acting as technical guardian of critical solutions.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous growth.
• Develop the team's technical capabilities through code reviews, pair programming and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Create and maintain organizational knowledge base, documenting technical decisions, patterns and lessons learned.
• Raise the organization's technical bar through training, workshops and sharing best practices.
• Conduct root-cause analyses for critical incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Identify and eliminate technical bottlenecks that impact performance, scalability or delivery quality.
• Work closely with Pre-Sales, supporting the preparation of technical proposals and solution definition.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Java
• JavaScript
• Microservices
• Python
• RPA
• TypeScript
• Go