Digital S​/W Engineer Group Mgr - Senior Vice President

This position is for a Principal Engineer that serves in a pivotal leadership role accountable for spearheading complex, critical, and large-scale professional disciplinary areas. This role leads and directs highly skilled engineering teams, requiring a comprehensive understanding of multiple technical domains and their interdependencies to achieve strategic objectives. The Principal Engineer applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions, demonstrating strong commercial awareness.

They are generally accountable for the successful delivery of a full range of services, championing an AI-First approach to all solutions and acting as a Design Authority
. This role demands excellent communication skills to negotiate internally at a senior level and externally with partners, while exercising control over resources, policy formulation, and strategic planning. They are involved in short- to medium-term planning for their area, with full management responsibility including performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, and budget approval, all while fostering an environment that champions best practices
.

• Strategic Leadership & Talent Development:

  • Demonstrate the ability to attract senior talent and build diverse, high‑performing teams across multiple functions, both internal and external to the company.
  • Mentor and teach others how to set high organizational performance standards, define performance measures and goals, and establish a strong Leader
    ship bar.
  • Facilitate understanding of broader organizational tenets and strategic goals for the department, aligning talent development with enterprise‑wide needs, particularly in emerging areas like AI.
  • Recognize and proactively address larger‑scale development needs within and across teams, building plans to enhance skills in cutting‑edge technologies such as React with Typescript
    , Module Federation/Micro Front Ends ,
    Java Spring Reactive
    , Python
    , LLM
    , RAG
    , and Agentic AI Patterns
    .
  • Share talent development best practices across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

• Technical Vision & Execution:

  • Develop and communicate a compelling department vision that supports the broader organizational vision, ensuring team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles and visible ties department decisions to leadership tenets.
  • Lead the Rapid AI Enabled Design and Implementation of successful large‑scale, critical, and/or complex software efforts, including both new development and strategic refactoring of existing systems.
  • Heavily influence the technical direction and contribute significantly to critical‑path code, acting as a Design Authority to ensure architectural integrity and alignment with an AI‑First approach
    .
  • Champion Resiliency, Observability and Scalability: Architect and implement solutions with a strong focus on high availability, performance, and future growth, integrating robust monitoring and logging practices.
  • Possess detailed knowledge of the work done by the team and proactively work to improve consistency and integration between software components, including those leveraging Module Federation/Micro Front Ends , and related software owned by other teams.
  • Drive technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities, championing the adoption of modern frameworks like React with Typescript and Java Spring Reactive
    , and exploring new capabilities with Python
    .
  • Take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems, addressing architectural deficiencies, or resolving areas where the team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams, particularly in leveraging LLM
    , RAG
    , and MCP for enhanced functionality. Make software simpler, more robust, and highly performant.

• Collaboration & Influence:

  • Effectively communicate complex technical ideas to achieve optimal outcomes for the team and customers. Harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues by building strong consensus.
  • Engage in deep Collaboration with Architecture, Product and Business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into…