Principal Applications Engineer; Greensboro, NC

Position: Principal Applications Engineer (Greensboro, NC)
Job Summary:

This senior technical expert drives enterprise Content Management System (CMS) strategy and leads the evolution of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) use with proven ability to influence architecture and platform strategy in complex enterprise environments. Partnering with application and product teams, this role delivers scalable, secure, and high-performing digital solutions across cloud, CMS, digital marketing, content supply chain, workflow automation, DAM, and integration ecosystems.
Provides architectural leadership and advisory support while ensuring platform reliability with and continuous improvement initiatives, incident management, and root cause analysis. Contributes to standards lifecycle management, governance processes, and reference architectures that guide solution design and investment decisions. Oversees CDN/NGINX configurations and automation to enable efficient, secure operations. Partners across architecture, engineering, security, infrastructure, and delivery teams to ensures alignment with strategic objectives, enforce architecture governance, define enterprise standards, and ensure effective balance between governance, operational excellence, risk management, and delivery efficiency.

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices.

Essential Responsibilities:

+ Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

+ Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members;

and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

+ Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

+ Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

+ Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.

+ Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications.

+ Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.

+ Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.

+ Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.

+ Oversees the review and…