Principal Engineer, Software Quality & Engineering Governance

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The Principal Engineer, Software Quality & Engineering Governance is responsible for establishing and governing enterprise software engineering standards, code quality practices, architecture review processes, and AI-assisted software development controls across the organization.

This role serves as the technical authority for software quality and engineering excellence, ensuring all software solutions, whether developed by internal teams, external partners, or AI-assisted development tools, meet enterprise standards for security, maintainability, scalability, performance, reliability, and reusability.

The individual will develop governance frameworks, automated quality gates, technical guardrails, review processes, and engineering best practices that enable rapid delivery while maintaining technical excellence. This role is expected to influence engineering teams across multiple technology stacks including Python, .NET, SAP, cloud-native applications, integrations, APIs, and emerging AI-enabled solutions.

• Establish and maintain enterprise-wide software engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance frameworks.

• Define coding standards, design principles, architecture patterns, documentation requirements, and development lifecycle controls.

• Create and maintain reusable development frameworks, templates, libraries, and reference architectures.

• Drive consistency in software engineering practices across global development teams.

• Serve as the enterprise authority for software quality and code review practices.

• Review critical applications, architectural decisions, and high-impact development initiatives.

• Ensure application code aligns with functional requirements, design standards, maintainability expectations, and enterprise architecture principles.

• Establish processes for code certification, production readiness reviews, and technical quality assessments.

• Define governance standards for AI-generated software artifacts.

• Establish review, validation, approval, and traceability processes for AI-assisted code development.

• Ensure AI-generated solutions comply with enterprise security, quality, regulatory, and maintainability requirements.

• Develop policies and controls for the responsible adoption of AI development tools.

• Partner with development teams to implement automated quality controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

• Define and monitor quality metrics including:

• Code coverage

• Technical debt

• Code complexity

• Security vulnerabilities

• Performance benchmarks

• Reliability measures

• Defect escape rates

• Establish automated CI/CD quality gates to improve consistency and reduce delivery risk.

• Lead architecture and technical design reviews for strategic initiatives.

• Evaluate software solutions for scalability, extensibility, resilience, security, and operational supportability.

• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps.

• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve overall platform quality.

• Define performance engineering standards and optimization practices.

• Review applications for efficient resource utilization, scalability, throughput, latency, and operational efficiency.

• Establish benchmarks and acceptance criteria for application performance across multiple technology platforms.

• Mentor software engineers, architects, technical leads, and development managers.

• Promote a culture of engineering excellence through coaching, training, and community leadership.

• Enable development teams through…