Principal Engineer (R-19941)

Team: Technology

Location: Warsaw - Poland

Commitment: Employee: Full Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Essential responsibilities:

• Define and communicate target architecture strategy and roadmaps for platform modernization, consolidation and platform rationalization.
• Align technology initiatives with business priorities.
• Provide architectural leadership, guide solution design and key technology decisions. Lead architecture reviews, define standard and governance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and adoption opportunities and share these with leadership.
• Support data, analytics, AI and automation initiatives. 
• Promote scalable secure and reusable architecture patterns. Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security and Business teams.
• Communicate and align architectural direction with measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, foster strong design thinking and shared ownership, and help build a culture that balances customer focus, engineering excellence and pragmatic delivery. 

Essential skills and/or certifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline,
• 12+ years of Enterprise, Solution development or Domain Architecture experience, including significant ownership of complex, distributed, data-intensive systems.
• Strong technical depth and practical engineering experience, with the ability to challenge designs, evaluate implementation trade-offs, participate meaningfully in design and code reviews where appropriate, and ensure architectural direction is grounded in delivery and operational reality.
• Experience with technology transformation and governance.
• In-depth understanding of cloud architecture and operations in secure, resilient and multi-region environments. Experience with Google Cloud is advantageous, alongside the ability to work across a diverse enterprise technology landscape.
• Strong understanding of AI, analytics and modern engineering practices
• Strong understanding of cloud, integration, data, application and platform architectures, including modern API, event-driven and distributed-system patterns.
• Experience architecting complex, distributed and data-intensive platforms using modern cloud, data processing, integration, messaging, analytics and information-management technologies. Experience with relevant technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Databricks, Elasticsearch or equivalent platforms is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, secure coding, observability, incident learning and operational readiness.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite skills
• Show an ownership mindset in everything you do. Be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action. Be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success.
• Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.
• Where applicable, fluency in English and languages relevant to the working market.