Principal Security Engineer Fortive Remote

The Principal Security Engineer is responsible for defining and governing the organization's technology strategy, architecture standards, and technology roadmaps across cloud platforms, developer ecosystems, AI technologies, security, and infrastructure services. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and provides strategic direction for the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise-scale technology solutions.

The Principal Security Engineer will lead architecture initiatives spanning Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Git Hub Enterprise, AI platforms, identity services, developer tooling, and cloud governance frameworks while ensuring alignment with business objectives, security requirements, compliance obligations, and financial management goals.

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Guide strategic technology investment decisions and provide architectural leadership to business and technology executives.
• Lead architecture governance reviews and ensure alignment of technology solutions with enterprise objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and establish adoption strategies that balance innovation, security, scalability, and cost.

• Own enterprise cloud architecture and governance across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Design and maintain cloud landing zones, network architectures, identity models, security controls, and management frameworks.
• Establish enterprise standards for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation), automation, and cloud operations.
• Lead cloud modernization, migration, platform engineering, and transformation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain cloud governance, Fin Ops, and operational excellence programs across all cloud providers.
• Architect secure environments for regulated workloads, including AWS Gov Cloud and other compliance-sensitive environments.

• Own the architecture, governance, administration, and strategic direction of the organization's Git Hub Enterprise platform.
• Manage Git Hub Enterprise licensing, billing structures, organizational hierarchy, repository governance, and platform security.
• Lead enterprise adoption and governance of Git Hub Copilot, AI-assisted development platforms, and modern software engineering capabilities.
• Establish standards for source code management, CI/CD platforms, developer workflows, and software supply chain security.
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and developer experience.
• Define governance controls for enterprise AI coding assistants and developer tool ecosystems.

• Develop enterprise architectures for AI platforms, generative AI services, foundation models, and AI-enabled business capabilities.
• Establish governance frameworks for responsible AI adoption, security, compliance, and risk management.
• Partner with business and engineering teams to enable secure adoption of emerging AI technologies.
• Evaluate and govern enterprise AI platforms including commercial and cloud-native AI services.

• Establish enterprise security architecture standards across cloud, infrastructure, applications, AI, and developer platforms.
• Define patterns and controls for identity and access management, privilege management, secrets management, and Dev Sec Ops .
• Partner with cybersecurity, product security, and engineering organizations to implement security-by-design practices.
• Ensure architecture decisions support regulatory, contractual, and industry compliance requirements.

• Lead cloud financial management (Fin Ops) initiatives across AWS, Azure, GCP, Git Hub Enterprise, and AI platforms.
• Establish governance for consumption, budgeting, licensing, chargeback/showback, and cost optimization.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation, standardization, and platform consolidation.
• Drive continuous improvement programs that reduce technical debt while improving scalability and reliability.

• Act as a senior technical advisor to executive leadership and technology teams.
• Lead cross-functional architecture initiatives involving infrastructure,…