The Principal Platform Engineer partners with a wide cross-section of partners to create innovative and compelling experiences for our Truist clients. Responsible for defining, championing, building, delivering, and measuring products/platforms and strategies for their segment. This role manages and leads high performing product management teams consisting of product managers, product owners, and product analysts. This role is pivotal in building resilient, observable, and policy-compliant software systems that power mission-critical business functions. Leveraging technologies like Java, Python, Helm, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, you will deliver reusable software patterns with embedded controls to meet enterprise security, compliance, and risk management standards. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can translate architectural vision into production-ready, scalable code with a focus on governance-as-code and automation. For this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.) This position is office-centric 5 days a week in either our Atlanta or Charlotte Office