Software Engineer Principal

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Software Engineer Principal within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA or Cleveland, OH.

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

• Serve as the primary technical owner of the web platform implementation supporting enterprise digital properties
• Design and develop scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions across CMS, hosting, and delivery layers
• Ensure platform capabilities support high-quality content delivery, personalization, and user experience
• Implement personalization strategies (targeting, segmentation, dynamic content delivery)
• Partner with UX/design teams to translate designs into high-fidelity, performant implementations
• Continuously improve page speed, responsiveness, and engagement outcomes
• Enable efficient content authoring, publishing, and workflow capabilities within the platform
• Ensure content delivery supports multi‑channel and multilingual needs
• Integrate and optimize personalization engines, data layers, and targeting logic
• Establish and follow best practices for:
  • Component‑based architecture
  • API integrations
  • Performance optimization
• Lead adoption of modern development patterns (headless, microservices where applicable)
• Optimize how code moves from development, to pipeline, and to production
• Contribute to improvements in build pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes
• Drive front‑end and platform‑level performance tuning
• Support integration with security controls, to support scanning, monitoring, and access control
• Align business strategy with software solutions
• Propose, design and code software solutions to address complex business needs
• Oversee technical and procedural documentation required
• Lead complex problem solving
• Provide technical guidance and support to colleagues and solution development
• Display an innovative approach to apply modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for this role.

• Preferred
  
  Skills:
  
  Application Development, Business Management, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Software Solutions, Team Support, 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
• 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.

Bachelor’s degree

Base Salary: $91,000.00 – $. Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

• 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
• Paid time off: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays; 9 occasional absence days; 15 to 25 vacation days per year (depending on career level); additional days…