Principal Financial Group

Offers retirement planning, life insurance, investments

Lead Consultant - Software Engineering

Cloud EngineeringUpdated on Nov 12

Full-timeHyderabad, Telangana, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 15 years of overall information technology experience, with significant experience in enterprise integration, middleware, Managed File Transfer, or related platform engineering.
Deep hands-on expertise with GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer in large enterprise environments.
Proven experience providing technical leadership for enterprise platforms or integration services.
Strong experience designing and supporting GoAnywhere on AWS.
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and secure file-transfer technologies.
Experience with enterprise-scale platform upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery, security remediation, and production support.
Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, security, monitoring, and resiliency concepts.
Experience working with continuous integration and continuous delivery, GitHub, ServiceNow, JIRA, and Confluence.
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues spanning application, infrastructure, network, database, and integration layers.
Experience influencing architecture and engineering decisions across multiple technical teams.
Ability to operate independently and provide technical direction to others.
Ability to move between strategic platform discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.
Strong technical decision-making and ability to navigate ambiguity.
Ability to influence teams and stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
Ability to explain complex technical topics to engineering and leadership audiences.
Ownership and accountability for platform stability, engineering quality, and technical outcomes.
A mentoring mindset focused on building capability within the broader team.
Ability to identify how the platform needs to evolve to support future enterprise integration needs.

Responsibilities

Serve as the GoAnywhere technical subject matter expert and technical authority, providing direction and guidance to engineers supporting the platform.
Define and drive the technical roadmap and future strategy for the GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer platform, aligned with enterprise integration and technology direction.
Lead architecture and solution design for complex Managed File Transfer and enterprise integration requirements.
Establish engineering standards, design patterns, operational practices, and reusable solutions for the GoAnywhere platform.
Provide technical leadership for the transition of GoAnywhere capabilities and knowledge from HO to GCH, reducing dependency on individual expertise over time.
Provide technical leadership and solution oversight for BEAM and SEA transitions, as well as future integration initiatives.
Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and integration teams to design scalable and supportable solutions.
Architect, administer, and evolve GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer environments across non-production and production environments.
Lead complex installation, configuration, migration, patching, and platform upgrade initiatives.
Provide expertise across GoAnywhere projects, workflows, schedulers, monitors, partner configurations, and secure file-transfer patterns.
Design solutions leveraging secure transfer protocols including SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS.
Provide technical oversight for AWS infrastructure supporting GoAnywhere, including EC2, load balancers, VPC, Route 53, S3, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, and CloudWatch.
Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, including development of scalable and reusable modules and automation patterns.
Drive appropriate use of GitHub and continuous integration and delivery practices for platform engineering and infrastructure changes.

What You'll Do

This role is part of the Integration team responsible for the enterprise Managed File Transfer capability. The Senior Consultant will serve as the technical SME and technical lead for the GoAnywhere platform, providing deep technical expertise while driving platform architecture, engineering standards, operational stability, and future strategy.

The position requires 15+ years of overall technology experience, with strong expertise in enterprise integration and Managed File Transfer platforms, particularly GoAnywhere. The individual will provide technical direction to the engineering team, lead complex solution and architecture decisions, and help establish and mature the GoAnywhere capability within GCH.

The role will also be instrumental in enabling upcoming transitions and positioning the team to support future enterprise integration requirements.

Core Technologies

Managed File Transfer: GoAnywhere MFT
Cloud: AWS
Infrastructure as Code / Automation: Terraform
DevOps / Source Control: GitHub
ITSM: ServiceNow
Planning & Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence
Methodology: Agile
Strong understanding of CI/CD, SDLC, security, infrastructure and enterprise integration practices

GoAnywhere Technical Leadership & Strategy

Serve as the GoAnywhere technical SME and technical authority, providing direction and guidance to engineers supporting the platform.
Define and drive the technical roadmap and future strategy for the GoAnywhere MFT platform, aligned with enterprise integration and technology direction.
Lead architecture and solution design for complex Managed File Transfer and enterprise integration requirements.
Establish engineering standards, design patterns, operational practices and reusable solutions for the GoAnywhere platform.
Provide technical leadership for the transition of GoAnywhere capabilities and knowledge from HO to GCH, reducing dependency on individual expertise over time.
Provide technical leadership and solution oversight for upcoming BEAM and SEA transitions, as well as future integration initiatives.
Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, security and integration teams to design scalable and supportable solutions.

Platform Engineering & Architecture

Architect, administer and evolve GoAnywhere MFT environments across non-production and production environments.
Lead complex installation, configuration, migration, patching and platform upgrade initiatives.
Provide expertise across GoAnywhere projects, workflows, schedulers, monitors, partner configurations and secure file-transfer patterns.
Design solutions leveraging secure transfer protocols including SFTP, FTPS and HTTPS.
Provide technical oversight for AWS infrastructure supporting GoAnywhere, including EC2, Load Balancers, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager and CloudWatch.
Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, including development of scalable and reusable modules and automation patterns.
Drive appropriate use of GitHub and CI/CD practices for platform engineering and infrastructure changes.

Who You Are

15+ years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in enterprise integration, middleware, Managed File Transfer or related platform engineering.
Deep hands-on expertise with GoAnywhere MFT in large enterprise environments.
Proven experience providing technical leadership for enterprise platforms or integration services.
Strong experience designing and supporting GoAnywhere on AWS.
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and secure file-transfer technologies.
Experience with enterprise-scale platform upgrades, migrations, DR, security remediation and production support.
Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure, networking, IAM, security, monitoring and resiliency concepts.
Experience working with CI/CD, GitHub, ServiceNow, JIRA and Confluence.
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues spanning application, infrastructure, network, database and integration layers.
Experience influencing architecture and engineering decisions across multiple technical teams.

Leadership Qualities

Recognized SME who can operate independently and provide technical direction to others.
Able to move between strategic platform discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.
Strong technical decision-making and ability to navigate ambiguity.
Able to influence teams and stakeholders without requiring direct reporting authority.
Strong communicator capable of explaining complex technical topics to both engineering and leadership audiences.
Demonstrates ownership and accountability for platform stability, engineering quality and technical outcomes.
Strong mentoring mindset with a focus on building capability within the broader team.
Forward-looking and able to identify how the platform needs to evolve to support future enterprise integration needs.

About the Company

Principal Financial Group

Offers retirement planning, life insurance, investments

Principal Financial Group provides a wide range of financial services, including retirement plans, life insurance, and investment opportunities for individuals, businesses, and institutional investors. Its products work by collecting premiums or fees and managing investments to help clients save for retirement, protect loved ones, and grow wealth over the long term. The company differentiates itself through its breadth of offerings, customized financial solutions, and flexible retirement and investment options designed to fit different needs. Its goal is to give clients financial stability and growth potential by offering planning tools, insurance protection, and investment opportunities across various markets.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Des Moines, IA
Founded: 1879

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