Associate Director - Engineering

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.* Drive technology modernization, engineering maturity, automation, cloud adoption, and platform transformation.

• Establish engagement models, execution standards, governance, and success metrics for high\-impact initiatives.
• Build and mentor a team of senior technical specialists, strengthening organizational capability and technical depth.
• Deliver reusable frameworks, accelerators, playbooks, and guidelines that scale across IS.
• Work alongside business and technology leaders to tackle complex challenges, guide strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Influence senior leaders and collaborators across business and technology functions.
• Foster multi\-functional collaboration to accelerate enterprise\-wide outcomes.
• Act as a trusted technical leader for enterprise architecture, engineering excellence, innovation, and transformation initiatives.

• *Secondary Responsibilities*** Contribute to department and organization\-level high\-level initiatives.
• Represent the Automation vertical within various technical and other forums within PFG and the industry.

Qualifications

• *Required Qualifications*** 18\+ years
• 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).
• Demonstrable experience leading senior technical teams and enterprise\-scale technology initiatives.
• Strong expertise in one or more areas such as Cloud, Infrastructure/Platform Engineering, AI \& Automation, Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Modernization, Security Engineering.
• Established skill in guiding technology strategy and managing delivery across several teams and areas.
• Strong engineering approach with hands\-on technical credibility.
• Experience leading large\-scale change, modernization, or capability\-building programs.
• Excellent collaborator management, communication, and executive engagement skills.

• *Preferred Certifications*** AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent cloud certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent platform certification.
• CCNA or equivalent certification around Network \& Infrastructure.
• SAFe Agilist, Scrum, or Agile leadership certification.

• *Required Behavioral Proficiencies*** Make sound business decisions.
• Embrace Change.
• Build positive relationships.
• Get results.
• Act Strategically.
• 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!