Principal Engineer, DNA Platforms
About The Position
The Principal Engineer, DNA Platforms defines architecture, engineering strategy, and technical direction for critical platforms and services at Fiserv. The role partners with engineering, product, architecture, and business teams to address complex technical challenges and advance modernization, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering excellence. It serves as a trusted technical advisor influencing strategy across multiple teams while applying hands-on technical depth and sound technical judgment. The position sets the technical vision, long-term architecture, and engineering roadmap for DNA Platforms; leads solution design, architecture reviews, and technical decisions for complex multi-team initiatives; and designs scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable software platforms using distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architecture patterns. It guides modernization, platform engineering practices, automation, tooling, and CI/CD adoption, while establishing engineering standards, design principles, technical governance, and measurable practices for software quality, observability, performance, reliability, and security. The role also manages, coaches, and develops engineers and engineering managers, and leads technical forums, design reviews, and knowledge sharing across geographically distributed teams.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, including architecture and delivery of large-scale enterprise platforms.
- 10+ years of experience designing distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and modern software delivery practices.
- 8+ years of experience managing and developing teams in engineering, architecture, or platform technology functions.
- 8+ years of experience applying security, reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and maintainability principles to production systems.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, related experience, and/or military experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in one or more of these domains: financial technology, banking, payments, risk, or fraud platforms.
- Experience leading two or more initiatives such as platform modernization, cloud adoption, or developer productivity programs.
- Experience working across geographically distributed engineering organizations with occasional travel up to 10%.
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, long-term architecture, and engineering roadmap for DNA Platforms.
- Lead solution design, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making for complex, multi-team initiatives across engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software platforms using distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Guide modernization efforts, platform engineering practices, automation, tooling, and CI/CD adoption.
- Establish engineering standards, design principles, technical governance, and measurable practices for software quality, observability, performance, reliability, and security.
- Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers.
- Lead technical forums, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing practices across geographically distributed teams.
Benefits
- Annual incentive opportunity for incentive-eligible associates, which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards at the Company’s discretion.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
