Senior Principal Engineer

at  PROGYNY INC

Thank you for considering Progyny!
Overview…
The Senior Principal Engineer role embodies the responsibility of a “spirit guide” for the advancement of numerous technology practice or discipline domains (examples: DevSecOps, Machine Learning/AI, Web/mobile, etc.). This role ensures that utilization of related technologies in the organization is applied with a consistent understanding of the pragmatic balance of “Perfect” vs. “Good enough”, weighing the constraints of available skills, resource availability, cost, and time-to-market commitments. A Senior Principal Engineer is actively/directly involved in developing foundational assets with that technology on emerging business needs but with a primary objective of educating others to evolve further and ensure support continuity. This role will also be called upon to inform/educate non-technical stakeholders on that technology domain and is expected to be involved and aware of industry updates and latest developments to guide company or partner implementations strategically.

Success in this role is measured by the following:

• Deep knowledge on specific technology and relevance/benefit to Progyny increasing organization competence (AMB survey feedback)
• Technology implementation provides measurable value benefits (COGS/TCO reduction, customer satisfaction/sales wins, etc.)
• Technology implementation guidelines and active curation of impacted assets meets or exceeds relevant Service-level Agreements (SLA)
• Is regarded by engineering organization and extended stakeholders as a domain expert and effective collaborator and is regularly sought-out for their expertise and support

Responsibilities…

• Develops technical roadmaps in conjunction with engineering leadership
• Actively influences technology strategy on a number of related technology domains for the organization
• Provide technical thought leadership of new or evolution to existing platform within a specific technology discipline through ideation, design, and initial implementation
• Documents and defines technology implementation/practice guidelines
• Coordination of implementation plans with program/project management to meet delivery timelines
• Mentor internal and external implementation stakeholders on ‘best fit’ and ‘appropriate use’ of technology to meet business objectives
• Maintain awareness of relevant industry and vendor roadmaps updates and knowledge-sharing events to maintain currency for organization
• Monitors the ongoing implementation and utilization of specific technologies for ‘drift’ and realignment to shared best practices/implementation guidelines
• Leads evaluation of solutions with balanced understanding of non-functional quality goals (

Success in this role is measured by the following:

• Deep knowledge on specific technology and relevance/benefit to Progyny increasing organization competence (AMB survey feedback)
• Technology implementation provides measurable value benefits (COGS/TCO reduction, customer satisfaction/sales wins, etc.)
• Technology implementation guidelines and active curation of impacted assets meets or exceeds relevant Service-level Agreements (SLA)
• Is regarded by engineering organization and extended stakeholders as a domain expert and effective collaborator and is regularly sought-out for their expertise and suppor

Responsibilities…

• Develops technical roadmaps in conjunction with engineering leadership
• Actively influences technology strategy on a number of related technology domains for the organization
• Provide technical thought leadership of new or evolution to existing platform within a specific technology discipline through ideation, design, and initial implementation
• Documents and defines technology implementation/practice guidelines
• Coordination of implementation plans with program/project management to meet delivery timelines
• Mentor internal and external implementation stakeholders on ‘best fit’ and ‘appropriate use’ of technology to meet business objectives
• Maintain awareness of relevant industry and vendor roadmaps updates and knowledge-sharing events to maintain currency for organization
• Monitors the ongoing implementation and utilization of specific technologies for ‘drift’ and realignment to shared best practices/implementation guidelines
• Leads evaluation of solutions with balanced understanding of non-functional quality goals