Candidate preferred industry background: Banking and Finance

Candidate Technical and skills profile:

The Principal Engineer partners with key stakeholders across the organization in developing platform technical roadmap and strategies. This individual acts as a technical lead to guide the creation and lifecycle of software platform architecture. Produces architectural block diagrams and high-level designs, delivers architectural design to development staff provides answers to customer inquiries concerning system software and applications, and interfaces with third party software vendors. The Principal Engineer relies upon wide-ranging experience, using professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

This role will be specifically responsible for Microservices and is completely hands on. The Microservices developer will lead and develop scalable applications. They will oversee architectural decisions, mentor, and ensure system performance and security.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Technical experience in modular software application architecture development
• Develop software and systems platform architecture.
• Work with business stakeholders to gather requirements for platform specific system functional specifications.
• The design and development of high-level product specification with attention to system integration and feasibility.
• Lead the initial architecture of major sub systems, defining the high-level platform design and reference technologies to be used.
• Oversee progress of development teams to ensure consistency with initial design.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers.
• Ensure software meets requirements of quality, security, modularity, and extensibility.
• Coaching and mentoring teams on design practices and helping to resolve issues.
• Lead technical exchange meetings with program engineers, other contractors, and customers.
• Create requirements definition and analysis for new software frameworks.
• Develop documentation of system use cases for software architecture.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience in a related field
• Multiple years of experience working in a similar role.
In addition to the basic requirements, this individual should possess the following:
• Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Microservices architecture patterns and best practices using Java , SpringBoot , and Graph QL
• BPM experiences using Flowable.
• Experience with modern observability tools and practices (Dynatrace, ELK)
• API gateway and service mesh technologies
• Event-driven architecture experience using Kafka.
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Modern security architecture patterns (Transmit, OAuth 2.0, OIDC)
• Architecture & Design:
o Domain-Driven Design (DDD) experience
o Experience with distributed systems patterns.
o Data architecture expertise (both SQL and NoSQL)
o System resilience and fault tolerance patterns
o Performance optimization and scalability expertise
o Experience with architectural decision records (ADRs)
• Modern Development Practices:
o DevOps and SRE principles
o Agile/Scrum methodologies
o Experience with modern version control workflows.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Aligns business strategy with software solutions.
• Proposes, designs & codes software solutions to address complex business needs. Oversees technical and procedural documentation required.
• Leads complex problem solving.
• Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues and solution development.
• Displays an innovative approach to apply modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Application Development, Business Management, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Software Solutions, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies
Application Design, Architecture, Packaged Application Integration, Product and Vendor Evaluation, Software Process Improvement (SPI), System Development Life Cycle, Technical Troubleshooting

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 8 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit Your PNC Total Rewards.

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