Job Description

Principal Engineer

Hybrid – St. Louis, MO | Direct Hire

About the Opportunity

Our client, a global industry leader headquartered in St. Louis with more than 90,000 employees, is hiring two Principal Engineers for its Workforce Technology Team (WTT). This is the most senior engineering level in the organization — a hands-on technical leadership role with no direct reports, where you'll set the technical vision for your area and be the person leadership turns to for answers.

WTT owns the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery, and end-user support for the technology employees rely on every day. Unlike a traditional IT group, the team works across IT and the business with a specific focus on the employee technology experience. That includes physical and virtual devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, payment devices, printers, virtual workstations), productivity and collaboration applications (email, unified communications, collaboration tools), identity solutions (Active Directory, Entra), and security capabilities (endpoint protection, secure coding tools, risk database).

The team is growing through acquisitions and expansion, and these two roles are being added to share the load at the Principal level. One Principal Engineer will focus on devices, connectivity, and applications; the other will focus on security. Both need a solid understanding across both domains.

What You'll Do

• Own the strategic direction and technical vision for your area, and lead technical strategy and architectural decisions
• Drive complex engineering solutions end to end across platform, endpoint security, and user-facing concerns in Microsoft Azure, with a strong emphasis on Office 365
• Partner closely with WTT Product to build engineering roadmaps, maintain operational health, and deliver technology solutions
• Share responsibility for WTT engineering delivery pipelines supporting 90,000+ employees
• Present complex technical topics clearly to audiences ranging from engineering teams up through the CIO and C-suite
• Design scalable solutions and create reusable technical designs that can be used across multiple teams
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies that improve the employee and customer experience
• Mentor and grow senior technical talent across the organization
• Build consensus and drive technical decisions at organizational scale — leading through influence and virtual teams rather than direct reports

What You Bring

• 11+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience, with proven technical leadership, including leading engineering teams
• Significant experience across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem — platform, endpoint, security, and user/identity management
• Strong, hands-on Office 365 experience
• Deep security experience across the Microsoft stack, including MFA, SSO, MIM, and OTP, plus a strong general security background
• Experience designing distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Experience building high-throughput endpoint systems and real-time services, and bridging frontend and backend technical domains
• Experience implementing comprehensive monitoring and security practices
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and how systems connect (WAN/LAN design not required)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the presence to build credibility with senior leadership quickly
• A commitment to building security into every decision and day-to-day responsibility

Nice to Have

• SIEM experience (Splunk or similar)
• Prior architecture experience
• Consulting background with a large professional services firm
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a related field

Location & Requirements

• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or the immediate surrounding area
• Hybrid schedule — work from home with in-person time as needed at the St. Louis corporate campuses
• Attendance at the annual leadership conference each June
• Must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future

About SBS Creatix

SBS Creatix is a St. Louis–based professional consulting and staffing firm that has been connecting top talent with great organizations since 2003. We place people across IT and technology, project and program management, finance and accounting, HR, marketing, legal, and sales — through contract, right-to-hire, and direct placement. We don't fill positions to hit quotas; we take the time to understand what you're looking for and match you with roles where you'll actually thrive. That's the #SBSDifference.