Principal

• Own the delivery plan, sequencing, and release calendar across four platform domains
• Drive execution from architecture intent through design, build, test, deployment, and stabilization
• Establish and enforce definition-of-ready and definition-of-done standards for platform work
• Manage delivery escalations, unblock technical impediments, and make sequencing decisions amid scope, dependency, and date pressures
• Maintain the integrated delivery view across the team
• Lead communications to customers, partners, and stakeholders
• Reduce technical debt through a debt register and retirement plans tied to the delivery plan
• Run Operational Excellence and Pre-Change governance programs across teams
• Partner with operations and SRE functions on incident reduction, problem management, and post-incident engineering follow-through
• Drive API discoverability, self-service onboarding, developer documentation quality, and time-to-first-integration
• Define and operate intake and qualification for workflow and robotics candidates, including technical feasibility and automation-versus-remediation assessments
• Measure and report adoption and reuse, not only delivery completion
• Represent delivery in enterprise architecture forums and assess proposed decisions against implementation reality
• Manage stakeholder expectations and relationships
• Ensure platform capabilities conform to reference architecture and formally document deviations as technical debt
• Provide delivery feedback into roadmaps and standards
• Produce technical effort estimates and capacity requirements for planning
• Conduct technical evaluations, integration design, and engineering-level supplier engagement
• Drive skills development, skill-mix requirements, technical role definition, and day-to-day delivery direction
• Report delivery status, release readiness, and platform health
• Identify technical and delivery risks and execute remediation
• Provide technical communication to engineering and consuming teams
• Manage relationships with Business Risk and Controls to manage the risk and control environment

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