TECHNOGEN, Inc. is a Proven Leader in providing full IT Services, Software Development and Solutions for 15 years.

TECHNOGEN is a Small & Woman Owned Minority Business with GSA Advantage Certification. We have offices in VA; MD & Offshore development centers in India. We have successfully executed 100+ projects for clients ranging from small business and non-profits to Fortune 50 companies and federal, state and local agencies.

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We are looking to Hire a Talented Professional for the below Job opportunity with one of our clients,

If you have any relevant candidate profiles, please share your updated resumes at your earliest convenience, and I'll be happy to provide more details about the role.

Position:Principal Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX- Onsite

Duration: Contract

Job Description:

Local candidates preferred.

The Principal Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership for the architecture, integration, governance, and operationalization of enterprise Al engineering platforms. The role will drive Al-enabled transformation across the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle (SLC), including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, release, and operations.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned engineering and platform architect with experience integrating Al coding assistants, autonomous software engineering agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, SaaS and on-premises platforms, developer toolchains, DevSecOps automation, security controls, and production operations.

The role will lead to the evolution of enterprise Al enablement patterns supporting platforms such as Devin and other Al-assisted engineering solutions. The Principal Engineer will guide integration with requirements management, source control, CI/CD, security scanning, testing, release management, observability, and IT service management platforms while ensuring alignment with enterprise security, technology risk, compliance, and operational requirements.

In this role, you will:

Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior leadership on highly complex Al engineering, platform, application, infrastructure, security, governance, and software delivery decisions.
Lead the strategy and resolution of enterprise challenges that require evaluation across multiple technology areas and organizations.
Translate product objectives, enterprise technology strategy, risk requirements, and emerging Al capabilities into scalable engineering solutions.
Provide vision, direction, and hands-on technical expertise for innovative, long-term, and enterprise-scale Al enablement capabilities.
Maintain knowledge of industry practices and emerging technologies, recommending innovations that improve engineering productivity, delivery quality, operational effectiveness, or business outcomes.
Strategically engage with professionals and leaders across DT and influence architecture standards, engineering practices, integration patterns, and modernization roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities

AI Enablement Architecture and Engineering Leadership
Lead the architecture and continued evolution of enterprise Al engineering capabilities across Saas, cloud, desktop, and on-premises environments.
Design scalable, resilient, secure, and compliant integration patterns for Al coding assistants and software engineering agents.
Define enterprise patterns for Model Context Protocol (MCP), remote and hosted MCP services, MCP gateways, enterprise tools, APls, and platform interoperability.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for solution design, implementation, integration, and operationalization.
Establish reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, reference implementations, implementation playbooks, and platform guardrails.
Lead high-level architecture, end-to-end flow, authentication and authorization, network connectivity,
API contract, and service integration design.
Al-Enabled Software Development Lifecycle
Drive Al integration across the Define, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, Release, and Operate phases of the SDLC.
Enable integration with requirements and collaboration platforms, including Jira and Confluence.
Enable design workflows and integration with tools such as Figma and enterprise architecture services.
Integrate Al capabilities with developer and software supply chain platforms, including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Sonar, Checkmarx, and Black Duck.
Enable testing and validation integrations with platforms such as JMeter, HyperExecute, Report Portal, BrowserStack, and BlazeMeter.
Integrate deployment and release workflows with platforms such as Harness, Ansible, and ServiceNow.
Enable operational integrations with observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk and appyDynamics
Delivery, Validation, Security, and Governance
Lead delivery from initiation and requirements through architecture and design, build and configuration, validation, security and governance, production readiness, and go-live.
Define functional and non-functional requirements and perform tool capability assessments.
Guide service account and secret configuration, router or gateway integration, proxy developer and connectivity with target services and tools.
Lead non-production deployment and connectivity, functional, integration, security, user acceptance and performance testing.
Initiate and support architecture, cyber security, third-party or SaaS, risk, compliance, and governance reviews and approvals.
Ensure solutions comply with enterprise security, data protection, technology risk, regulatory, operational requirements.
Production Readiness and Operations
Drive change request initiation, production readiness review, and required change approvals.
Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, support, and service management standards.
Develop runbooks, playbooks, game plans, rollback strategies, and operational handoff models
Guide production deployment, post-implementation testing, monitoring and alerting review, and continuous operational improvement.
Partner with DevOps, Release Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to improve platform reliability, resilience, and supportability.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with product owners, UX designers, developers, application architects, testers, DevOps engineers, release technology leads, release engineers, and site reliability engineers.
Collaborate with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Application Development, Quality Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams.
Facilitate architecture discussions and build alignment across product, engineering, governance, infrastructure, and operational stakeholders.
Clearly communicate complex technical concepts, architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
Mentor senior engineers and architects and help build enterprise communities of practice for Al-enabled engineering
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education.
5+ years of technical leadership experience driving enterprise-scale engineering initiatives, architecture programs, platform integrations, or technology transformations.
5+ years of hands-on software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, API integration, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation experience.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade solutions across modern SLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.
Experience with enterprise architecture, APs, service integration, authentication, authorization, secrets management, network connectivity, and security controls.
Experience leading complex cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing engineering. product, architecture, security, risk, and operations stakeholders.
Experience establishing production readiness, observability, operational support, governance, and continuous improvement practices.
Desired Qualifications:
Experience with Generative Al, Agentic Al, Al engineering platforms, Large Language Models, and Al-assisted software engineering.
Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP gateways, agent orchestration, tool integration,
and secure enterprise Al architecture patterns.
Experience integrating Al-powered developer productivity tools, coding assistants, or autonomous software engineering agents into enterprise workflows.

Experience with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Artifactory, Sonar, Checkmarx, Black Duck, BrowserStack, BlazeMeter, Report Portal, Harness, ServiceNow, Splunk, AppDynamics, Ansible, or comparable platforms.

Experience delivering enterprise technology solutions in a regulated financial services environment.

Strong understanding of secure architecture, SaaS risk assessment, third-party governance, data protection, technology risk, compliance, and operational controls.

Demonstrated ability to create reusable frameworks, reference implementations, engineering standards, technical guidance, adoption roadmaps, and enablement programs.

Ability to influence technical strategy and architecture decisions across multiple organizations and senior leadership teams.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills
Regards,

Surekha. V

Principal Engineer

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