Principal Engineer - IFC Engineering

Job description

**Principal Engineer – IFC Engineering (Screening & Wholesale CDD)** **Job Profile** **Principal Engineer – D** **Role Context and Justification** As part of the **Integrated Financial Crime (IFC)** initiative, this role is critical to ensuring **robust, scalable, and regulator-ready engineering solutions** across the **Screening and Customer Due Diligence (Wholesale CDD)** domains. The Principal Engineer will hold **end-to-end technical accountability for Screening platforms globally** , driving architectural consistency, execution excellence, and alignment to IFC and Enterprise strategic platforms. In parallel, the role will provide **people management and deep technical oversight for Wholesale CDD engineering teams based in India** , ensuring delivery quality, capability uplift, and alignment with global standards. **Purpose of the Role** To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the **design and implementation of global Screening solutions** , providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross‑functional collaboration, and contributing to IFC and Enterprise strategic planning. The role ensures the delivery of **high‑quality, compliant, and scalable solutions** aligned with business, regulatory, and risk objectives, while maintaining strong people leadership and technical governance for Wholesale CDD engineering teams in India. **Key Accountabilities** **Global Screening – Technical Design & Execution** - Lead the end-to-end technical design and execution of Screening platforms globally, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned to IFC and Enterprise architecture standards. - Provide technical authority and design oversight for Screening capabilities, including transaction screening, sanctions screening, alerting, and case management integrations. - Ensure Screening solutions meet regulatory, audit, and model governance expectations, embedding controls, observability, and resilience by design. - Anticipate future Screening technology trends, regulatory changes, and data strategies, translating these into actionable engineering roadmaps. **Wholesale CDD – India Team Leadership & Technical Oversight** - Provide people management and technical oversight for Wholesale CDD engineering teams based in India, embedding a strong performance, risk-aware, and delivery-focused culture. - Mentor, coach, and develop engineers and engineering leaders, elevating capability, consistency, and adherence to global engineering standards. - Ensure Wholesale CDD solutions align with global IFC architecture principles, while remaining responsive to regional delivery and regulatory needs. - Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical, delivery, and risk issues within the Wholesale CDD domain. **Engineering Excellence & Governance** - Provide guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices, fostering a culture of technical excellence across Screening and Wholesale CDD. - Design and implement complex, maintainable, and secure software solutions, balancing long-term viability with immediate business outcomes. - Drive innovation by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into Screening and Wholesale CDD engineering processes. **Stakeholder & Cross‑Functional Collaboration** - Collaborate closely with business partners, product managers, architects, risk, compliance, and operations teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into cohesive technical solutions. - Provide expert technical advice to senior stakeholders and governance forums, influencing decisions beyond immediate engineering teams. - Act as a principal contact point for Screening engineering across IFC and the wider enterprise. **Director Expectations** - Manage a significant business function or act as a deep technical expert and organisational thought leader, leading organisation‑wide initiatives across Screening and Wholesale CDD. - Contribute to and influence function‑wide strategy, policy, and procedures, planning and consulting on multiple complex and business‑critical initiatives. - Lead and embed a high‑performance culture, directly managing people managers and senior engineers where applicable. - Provide information and insight impacting long‑term profitability, organisational risk, and strategic decision‑making. - Escalate breaches of policy or procedure appropriately and ensure regulatory compliance is embedded within all relevant engineering processes. - Engage with the external environment, including regulators and industry bodies, to monitor and influence outcomes where appropriate. - Demonstrate advanced analytical and interpretative thinking to solve complex and sensitive problems. **Purpose of the role** To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. **Accountabilities** - Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence. - Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps. - Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives. - Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization. - Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ens