Define and drive the over-arching technical vision and architecture across multiple modernization pillars.
Drive consistent adoption of practices that ensure reliability, scalability, resilience, and security.
Challenge legacy assumptions, constraints, and development patterns.
Identify and drive investments in sustainable competitive advantages.
Serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership and executives for critical design decisions, technology adoption, and integration strategies.
Mentor and grow senior technical talent, raising overall capability and maturity.
Foster alignment and collaboration across globally distributed engineering organizations.
Influence leadership beyond IT by advocating for innovation and technical investments.

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a principal, staff, or architect-level role.
Demonstrated expertise in mainframe ecosystem operational characteristics and operating models.
Demonstrated experience in enterprise-level change management and platform migration.
Proven success designing and scaling distributed, cloud -native systems.
Strong understanding of security, observability, performance, and high-availability architectures.
Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous and dynamic environments.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities, with a passion for driving innovation in technology.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Company Vehicle : Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Principal Software Engineer – Mainframe Modernization

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