Responsibilities:
What Makes This Opportunity Unique
At Principal, we foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, where your expertise and enthusiasm can truly make a difference. As the Associate Director - Engineering, you will lead critical initiatives that require deep technical knowledge, critical thinking, and flawless execution. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to influence our technology direction and drive significant enterprise-wide impact!
Primary Responsibilities
- Contribute to the GCH - IS Capability Maturity strategy and deploy specialist teams to accelerate strategic enterprise initiatives.
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Drive technology modernization, engineering maturity, automation, cloud adoption, and platform transformation.
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Establish engagement models, execution standards, governance, and success metrics for high-impact initiatives.
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Build and mentor a team of senior technical specialists, strengthening organizational capability and technical depth.
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Deliver reusable frameworks, accelerators, playbooks, and guidelines that scale across IS.
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Work alongside business and technology leaders to tackle complex challenges, guide strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes.
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Influence senior leaders and collaborators across business and technology functions.
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Foster multi-functional collaboration to accelerate enterprise-wide outcomes.
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Act as a trusted technical leader for enterprise architecture, engineering excellence, innovation, and transformation initiatives.
Secondary Responsibilities
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Contribute to department and organization-level high-level initiatives.
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Represent the Automation vertical within various technical and other forums within PFG and the industry.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
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18+ years
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent professional experience (B.E. / B.Tech / M.S. / M.Tech / MCA).
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Demonstrable experience leading senior technical teams and enterprise-scale technology initiatives.
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Strong expertise in one or more areas such as Cloud, Infrastructure/Platform Engineering, AI & Automation, Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Modernization, Security Engineering.
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Established skill in guiding technology strategy and managing delivery across several teams and areas.
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Strong engineering approach with hands-on technical credibility.
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Experience leading large-scale change, modernization, or capability-building programs.
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Excellent collaborator management, communication, and executive engagement skills.
Preferred Certifications
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AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent cloud certification.
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent platform certification.
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CCNA or equivalent certification around Network & Infrastructure.
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SAFe Agilist, Scrum, or Agile leadership certification.
Required Behavioral Proficiencies
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Make sound business decisions.
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Embrace Change.
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Build positive relationships.
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Get results.
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Act Strategically.
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Lead and Cultivate Talent.
Additional Information:
Why Principal
At Principal, we offer a setting where your expertise and passion for security can thrive. If you are ready to join a positive group committed to quality and creativity, we want to connect with you!
Our Engineering Culture
In our Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to grasp and quickly address emerging business needs. Collaboration is embedded in every part of our work – from the products we create to the outstanding service we provide. We are driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is essential to designing the highest-quality products and experiences for our customers. Join us and become part of a highly ambitious team committed to delivering outstanding solutions!
