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PNC•Pittsburgh, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

At PNC, employees work together to deliver the best experience for customers in an inclusive workplace. The Software Engineer Principal is part of PNC's Technology organization and Developer Tools Team (DTT), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team improves the technologies, tools, and engineering experiences used by developers across the organization. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on modernizing the developer ecosystem, reducing friction, and improving developer productivity. The role expands the team's technical capacity across developer tooling and experience. It helps improve how core technologies—including C#, Java, Python, and Node.js—and their frameworks, packages, tools, plugins, and extensions are evaluated, approved, packaged, distributed, upgraded, and supported. It also evaluates major releases and emerging capabilities and helps establish sustainable paths for enterprise adoption. The Principal Engineer contributes to broader developer experience initiatives such as reference architectures, Inner Source, developer feedback, AI-assisted development, automation, and productivity tooling. Working with team leadership and developer communities, the engineer turns developer needs and opportunities into practical solutions, provides technical leadership and guidance, and helps teams solve complex engineering and business problems. PNC is an in-office company and encourages candidates to discuss workplace expectations with their recruiter and hiring manager. PNC will not provide employment visa sponsorship or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Requirements

Typically requires a university or college degree and 5 or more years of industry-relevant experience; a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience, including military service, may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Bachelor's degree listed under education.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities appropriate to the role.
PNC customer-focused practices and ability to prioritize customer needs and satisfaction in business decisions.
Ability to assess and manage risks in support of PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Nice To Haves

Agile methodology
Computer programming
Data structures
DevOps
Distributed systems
Microsoft technologies
Object-oriented programming
Software development
Software development life cycle (SDLC)
Software engineering
System designs
Application design
Architecture
Packaged application integration
Product and vendor evaluation
Software process improvement (SPI)
System development life cycle
Technical troubleshooting

Responsibilities

Align business and technology strategy with software solutions and developer enablement capabilities.
Propose, design, and code software solutions for complex engineering and business needs.
Provide technical leadership across C#, Java, Python, Node.js, associated frameworks, development environments, plugins, and extensions.
Improve processes for evaluating, approving, packaging, distributing, upgrading, and supporting development languages, frameworks, packages, tools, and extensions.
Evaluate major releases and emerging development capabilities and establish sustainable approaches for enterprise adoption.
Identify and remove friction in developer environments and workflows.
Build and improve reference architectures, reusable solutions, prototypes, and developer productivity tools.
Contribute to Inner Source repositories and communities to increase reuse and collaboration across development teams.
Partner with developer community efforts to translate developer feedback into improvements in tools, platforms, processes, and engineering practices.
Build and explore solutions for AI-assisted development, automation, and developer productivity.
Lead complex technical problem solving and provide technical guidance and hands-on support to development teams.
Apply modern engineering principles, technologies, and tools to advance developer capabilities and software delivery.
Oversee required technical and procedural documentation.
Align business strategy with software solutions and lead complex problem solving.

Benefits

Medical and prescription drug coverage, including a Health Savings Account feature
Dental and vision options
Employee and spouse/child life insurance
Short- and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
Pension plan
Stock purchase plans
Dependent care reimbursement account
Back-up child and elder care
Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
Educational assistance, including select fully paid programs
Wellness program with financial incentives
Maternity and/or parental leave
Up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
Between 15 and 25 vacation days each year depending on career level and years of service