Principal Engineer Jobs in Michigan (NOW HIRING)

In this position, you will:

• Serve as a Principal Engineer supporting both the ONESOURCE Platform and ONESOURCE AI organizations, helping drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering strategy across shared platform capabilities.
• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed systems and microservices-based architectures that support multiple products across the ONESOURCE portfolio.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders to develop scalable, secure, and reliable platform solutions.
• Drive architectural consistency, engineering excellence, and best practices across teams while ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Act as a senior technical advisor, providing guidance on complex technical challenges, modernization initiatives, cloud-native technologies, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Influence technical decision-making across multiple teams and organizations through collaboration, thought leadership, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Develop and champion platform standards, frameworks, and engineering patterns that improve software quality, maintainability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage AI and modern engineering approaches to accelerate innovation.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical initiatives that span multiple products, ensuring solutions are aligned, reusable, and strategically valuable to the broader platform ecosystem.
• Mentor and coach engineers and technical leaders, helping elevate technical capability, strengthen architectural practices, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership in solving ambiguous, business-critical problems and translating strategic objectives into actionable engineering solutions.
• Support the successful delivery of platform and AI initiatives by balancing technical excellence, business priorities, and customer impact.

You're an ideal fit if you have:

• Significant experience in software engineering, architecture, or platform engineering roles, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise applications.
• Deep expertise designing and building distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience driving technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple teams, products, or business domains.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and solve highly ambiguous engineering challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, system scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, QA, UX, and Business teams.
• Demonstrated success influencing technical decisions without direct authority and driving alignment across organizations.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, best practices, frameworks, and governance models.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to mentor engineers and technical leaders, fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on enterprise platform products that serve multiple applications, product lines, or business units.
• Knowledge of modern cloud platforms and technologies such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, containers, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience developing or supporting AI/ML-powered products, services, or platforms.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, API design, integration patterns, and modern software development methodologies.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives, including cloud transformation and platform evolution programs.
• Background working within large, matrixed, global organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical innovation with business priorities and customer needs.
• Passion for exploring emerging technologies and identifying opportunities to create value through AI and modern engineering practices.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate long-term business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong collaborator with exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments while leading through change.
• Effective coach and mentor who helps elevate the performance and growth of technical teams.
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and customer focus.
• Ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Continuous learner with a passion for innovation, engineering excellence, and technology leadership.