Principal Software Engineering

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.
* 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 success rates, merge conflict frequency, AI/automation adoption, and release stability.
* Drive enhancement of CI/CD templates through direct implementation and partnership with Platform and Dev Ops teams; proactively integrate AI tools into engineering workflows where they improve productivity, quality, and resiliency.
* Translate architecture decisions into enforceable automation and actively facilitate consistent adoption of shared CI/CD and platform capabilities across the department.
* Deliver transparent reporting and improvement roadmaps; proactively identify systemic delivery risks and implement corrective measures through direct action or organizational influence.
** Qualifications
* ** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience
* Ten years of recent hands-on software engineering experience
* Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal level
* Deep expertise in Git branching strategies and pull request governance
* Eight years of experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines or software automation
* Proven experience enforcing engineering standards across multiple teams
* Proficiency automating and building with Amazon Cloud services
* Experience building or integrating automation tools (e.g. bots, webhooks, policy enforcement)
* Experience coordinating Dev Ops enablement across platform and delivery teams
* Strong systems thinking and ability to diagnose cross-team delivery issues
* Expertise in programming languages/frameworks (e.g. Typescript, Python, .NET/C#, JAVA, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, Service Oriented Architecture)
* Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Harness, Jenkins, Docker, Containers, ECS, Kubernetes, container automation, and serverless) in a CI/CD pipeline
* Expertise in build and deployment tools (e.g. Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Nunit)
* Recent coding experience in production systems
* Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently
* Analytical and problem-solving skills
* Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization
* Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight…