Principal Software Engineer / Software Engineering Director
About The Position
The Principal Software Engineering Director is a technical expert and strategic leader who sets the direction for architectural decisions, engineering standards, and platform evolution. This role drives complex, high-impact initiatives and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring scalable, secure, and future-ready systems that align with enterprise goals. Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership capacity.
- Deep expertise in modern application architecture, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and enterprise systems integration.
- Track record of leading complex technical projects with cross-functional impact.
- Extensive experience in mentoring senior and lead engineers.
- Strong strategic thinking, communication, and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-grade systems and/or multiple platforms.
- Drive technical strategy, best practices and innovation across teams, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.
- Act as a key decision-maker in technology evaluations, design patterns, and engineering practices.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with strategic goals.
- Mentor senior and lead engineers, cultivating a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Solve complex technical challenges involving large-scale data, distributed systems, and cross-domain integrations.
- Champion automation, cloud-native development, and observability at the enterprise level.
- Effectively represent engineering in executive-level planning and cross-team initiatives.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
