Principal Software Engineering

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IT - Development

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. For more information, visit

The Principal Engineering Productivity & Delivery Platform Lead is a high-level individual contributor who concurrently designs, implements, and drives improvement across software delivery discipline, automation guardrails, and engineering maturity throughout the organization. This role operates at a Principal level and serves as the convergence point between Architecture, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, and application delivery teams. This is a deeply technical position focused on proactively establishing engineering guardrails, enforcing standards through automation, and facilitating measurable improvements in reliability and consistency across all projects—whether through direct ownership or cross-functional influence.

• Proactively design and implement enforceable delivery standards across repositories; increase engineering productivity, drive standardization of branching strategies, PR governance, testing expectations, and release conformity through direct contribution and cross-team influence.
• Concurrently design, build, and maintain pull request automation, AI-assisted review workflows, and policy-as-code guardrails; implement bots, webhooks, and automation that enforce engineering standards across locally owned and externally influenced capabilities.
• Partner with delivery teams as needed to remediate systemic issues in real-time; refactor unstable patterns, normalize repository structures, and facilitate adoption of improved practices.
• Lead coordination with internal Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, Architecture, and Engineering Excellence functions to proactively align strategic standards with implementation across all capability areas.
• Establish and continuously evolve engineering maturity benchmarks; actively track engineering cycle times, deployment…