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, while maintaining or reducing total cost of ownership.
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 strategic modernization of legacy platforms.
Demonstrated experience in enterprise-level change management and platform migration.
Demonstrated experience conducting vendor lock-in analyses, COTS evaluations and platform retirement.
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 value through technology.

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Principal Software Engineer – SaaS

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