Principal Software Engineer (Digital Wealth)

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer (Digital Wealth)

• Focus: Digital wealth software engineering leadership, architecture, and delivery

Description

Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of large-scale, critical software efforts for digital wealth, including hands-on ownership of critical-path code. Manage engineering teams and influence technical and business strategy through architecture-led thinking, design reviews, and best-practice engineering across multiple groups. Ensure alignment to organizational goals, communicate effectively with executives and stakeholders, and drive risk-aware delivery with compliance and ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct professional engineering teams; manage people, budget, and planning (including hiring, performance evaluation, and disciplinary actions)

• Attract and develop senior talent; set high performance standards and define performance measures and goals

• Audit and align department goals with broader organizational objectives; tie decisions to leadership principles

• Recognize trends for larger-scale development needs across teams and share talent development best practices

• Lead architecture and critical-path delivery; develop new software or refactor existing systems

• Improve consistency and integration across your software and related software owned by other teams

• Identify and solve ambiguous problems and architecture deficiencies; simplify software to remove bottlenecks

• Communicate ideas clearly to achieve the right outcomes for your team and customers; build consensus

• Lead design reviews for your team and actively participate in related software design reviews

• Provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcomes (“ship it, own it”)

• Influence 3–4 teams through collaborative delivery or by increasing productivity via engineering best practices (Security, Quality, Operational Excellence)

• Participate in hiring and mentor others to improve execution and software knowledge

• Assess and manage risk when business decisions are made; adhere to laws, rules, policy, ethics, and escalate/control issues with transparency

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with a significant portion dedicated to technology leadership in finance/banking

• Proven experience building, leading, and delivering complex technology projects from conception through deployment and ongoing support

• Ability to design, develop, implement, and support enterprise-grade applications

• Experience leading geographically distributed technology teams across multiple time zones

• Stakeholder management experience with effective communication with executive leadership and key business partners

• Enterprise-grade stack expertise: Angular (or similar JavaScript frameworks) for frontend

• Backend expertise: Java or Python microservices architecture

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs

• Expertise using modern development tools across the SDLC (e.g., GitHub Copilot or equivalent)

• Working knowledge of and adherence to industry software development best practices and standards

• Knowledge of Content Management platforms (AEM, Drupal, TeamSite) and sales enablement tools (Seismic)

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrated people management skills including mentorship and performance management

• Project management skills to oversee planning, execution, and delivery within scope, budget, and timeline

• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s preferred

Benefits

• Salary range: $169,600.00 - $254,400.00

• Discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards (eligible roles)

• Medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs

• Paid time off including planned and unplanned time off (sick leave) and paid holidays