Principal Platform Engineer

Truist Bank•Gloucester, VA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

A minimum of seven+ years in a combination of professional services and financial services industry
Five+ years of product management experience
Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices
Deep and broad experience in digital banking, financial services, or other complex transactional services
Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and large scale projects
Demonstrable understanding and application of digital concepts and technology
Ability to lead initiatives throughout the software development lifecycle, including post implementation
Bachelors' degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; banking or financial management education or equivalent education and related training
Strong strategic thinker, with ability to quickly assess complex problems, prioritize key issues, and focus on relevant facts
Demonstrated experience in managing a varied team of professionals in a project-based environment and a proven ability to coach and develop a team
Outstanding skills presenting/communicating ideas and data to Executive level leaders
Sound business judgment and ability to build a business case around a product or service
Expert relationship builder; developing open, effective, considerate, and productive working relationships. Can "work the matrix" and gain credibility quickly with internal and external constituents.
High level of adaptability; responds appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with change, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures.

Nice To Haves

Masters' of Business Administration (MBA) degree or Master's degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; banking or financial management education
Experience in banking, insurance, financial services, and/or investments across multiple client segments including consumer, small business, wealth and commercial business.
Experience in payment products, including ACH payments, wire transfers and real-time payments(RTP)

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading a team of product managers and product owners, setting direction and priorities for products, services, and experiences.
Responsible for understanding industry landscape, competitive environment, and voice of client
Develop product roadmaps in collaboration with Relationship Managers and Line of Business (LOB) partners.
Manage teams that develop and groom backlog from EPICS down to user stories in partnership with LOB, User Experience/User Interface, Content, Technology, and Operations
Partner with Tech Agile teams on development, rollout, and post-production support
Partner with Legal, Risk, & Compliance on new product development and remediation when applicable
Partner with associated LOBs, marketing, operation, and readiness teams on commercialization and rollout
Responsible for the client experience/results/KPIs of assigned platforms
Manage product pricing, including modeling pricing changes
Manage annual budget, including monthly forecasting
Hire, mentor and manage team members; proactively provide timely, candid, and constructive performance feedback in efforts to cultivate appropriate talent pool to ensure adequate bench strength and succession planning
Responsible for leading teams across related but disparate functions to support successful deployment of new products and integrated experiences