Associate Director - Engineering
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $0 – $0 / year
About the job
What You'll Do
What Makes This Opportunity Unique At Principal, we foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, where your expertise and enthusiasm can truly make a difference. As the Associate Director - Engineering, you will lead critical initiatives that require deep technical knowledge, critical thinking, and flawless execution. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to influence our technology direction and drive significant enterprise-wide impact! Primary Responsibilities - Contribute to the GCH - IS Capability Maturity strategy and deploy specialist teams to accelerate strategic enterprise initiatives.
• Drive technology modernization, engineering maturity, automation, cloud adoption, and platform transformation.
- Drive technology modernization, engineering maturity, automation, cloud adoption, and platform transformation.
- Establish engagement models, execution standards, governance, and success metrics for high-impact initiatives.
- Build and mentor a team of senior technical specialists, strengthening organizational capability and technical depth.
- Deliver reusable frameworks, accelerators, playbooks, and guidelines that scale across IS.
- Work alongside business and technology leaders to tackle complex challenges, guide strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Influence senior leaders and collaborators across business and technology functions.
- Foster multi-functional collaboration to accelerate enterprise-wide outcomes.
- Act as a trusted technical leader for enterprise architecture, engineering excellence, innovation, and transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to department and organization-level high-level initiatives.
- Represent the Automation vertical within various technical and other forums within PFG and the industry.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
• 18+ years
- 18+ years
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent professional experience (B.E. / B.Tech / M.S. / M.Tech / MCA).
- Demonstrable experience leading senior technical teams and enterprise-scale technology initiatives.
- Strong expertise in one or more areas such as Cloud, Infrastructure/Platform Engineering, AI & Automation, Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Modernization, Security Engineering.
- Established skill in guiding technology strategy and managing delivery across several teams and areas.
- Strong engineering approach with hands-on technical credibility.
- Experience leading large-scale change, modernization, or capability-building programs.
- Excellent collaborator management, communication, and executive engagement skills.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent cloud certification.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent cloud certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent platform certification.
- CCNA or equivalent certification around Network & Infrastructure.
- SAFe Agilist, Scrum, or Agile leadership certification.
- Make sound business decisions.
- Embrace Change.
- Build positive relationships.
- Get results.
- Act Strategically.
- Lead and Cultivate Talent.
Additional Information
Why Principal At Principal, we offer a setting where your expertise and passion for security can thrive. If you are ready to join a positive group committed to quality and creativity, we want to connect with you! Our Engineering Culture In our Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to grasp and quickly address emerging business needs. Collaboration is embedded in every part of our work – from the products we create to the outstanding service we provide. We are driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is essential to designing the highest-quality products and experiences for our customers. Join us and become part of a highly ambitious team committed to delivering outstanding solutions!
From Principal Financial's careers page (Company careers page), checked 3 Nov 2026.
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Posted 3 Nov 2026 · checked 3 Nov 2026 · Report this job