Principal Engineer II

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Principal Engineer II

Block 23

As a Principal Engineer II, you’ll be responsible for enabling scalable, secure, and governed data solutions across the organization. This role focuses on platform reliability, performance, automation, and enablement of data engineering teams, rather than application‑specific development. You will collaborate with architects, data engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to implement cloud‑first platform design patterns, automation frameworks, and operational best practices, while ensuring strong alignment with enterprise standards.

As Principal Engineer II, you’ll provide your expert‑level knowledge as the established authority in your domain as well as extensive knowledge across multiple domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You’ll lead large and complex design efforts supporting critical projects and solutions while engaging with project and business sponsors defining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions. You’ll also facilitate dialogue and large team activities, ensuring collaboration with teams outside of your domain.

You’ll develop effective presentations and narratives for business stakeholders and IT audiences.

• Design transaction‑specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners. In addition, lay out reference architecture and visual diagrams that capture work.
• Build, configure, and manage enterprise data platform services across Azure, Informatica and Microsoft Fabric environments.
• Own platform availability, reliability, and performance, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Implement backup, recovery, and failover strategies to ensure business continuity.
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and workload isolation strategies.
• Implement and manage access controls, RBAC, AD groups, and secure connectivity (Private Link, VNet, Gateways).
• Ensure platform compliance with enterprise governance, regulatory standards, and audit requirements.
• Define and implement platform‑level monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational documentation.
• Support production operations through incident triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Build the solution design of efforts that can be handed off to lower‑level engineers for execution, assuring reuse of platforms where possible.
• Review technical plans developed by lower‑level engineers and analysts to assure quality designs which can support the volumetrics of our business partners’ objectives.
• Build comprehensive measurement dashboards that provide performance insight into key applications of the bank, feeding operational results for business partners while enforcing IT standards.
• Work independently or partner with architecture team counterparts to lay out the final documentation required for proper, ongoing reference of the given solution, including physical and logical layouts with cross‑references to use‑case models.

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related IT degree;
  Master’s or MBA in a related field preferred.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure & Microsoft Fabric, including Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Work spaces, Capacity management, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Key Vault, Azure Monitor along with data governance tools MS Purview and Informatica (IDMC).
• Expertise in data cataloging, lineage, and quality tools Informatica and MS Purview.
• Experience with platform provisioning & automation (ARM, Terraform, YAML pipelines), CI/CD using Azure Dev Ops, monitoring & observability frameworks, security & access management (RBAC, Managed Identity, Service Principals).
• Working knowledge of data engineering frameworks and data lifecycle concepts, Fabric capacities, workspace configurations, and environment isolation, data security, compliance, and governance frameworks.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is…