Principal Engineer – CPS DataValidation Platform (OmniShopper & Homescan)

Platform Ownership & Production Leadership 

• Own the overall health, reliability, performance, and scalability of the DataValidation platform. 

• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for production incidents and business-critical issues. 

• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation activities. 

• Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence. 

• Establish and maintain operational KPIs, SLAs, and platform health metrics. 

Technical Leadership 

• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the DataValidation platform. 

• Participate to architecture decisions across both on-premise and Azure-based systems. 

• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and cost-effective. 

• Review system designs and provide technical guidance to development teams. 

• Balance technical debt reduction with business delivery commitments. 

• Act as the engineering lead for strategic OmniShopper initiatives. 

• Collaborate with Product Leadership and PMO to define technical solutions supporting business objectives. 

• Coordinate execution across multiple engineering and business teams. 

• Ensure DataValidation capabilities align with future OmniShopper and Homescan requirements. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

Partner closely with: 

• Data Science teams 

• PMO 

• Operations teams 

• Product Leadership 

• Global Engineering teams 

Responsibilities include: 

• Translating business requirements into technical solutions. 

• Managing technical risks and dependencies. 

• Driving prioritization discussions. 

• Communicating platform health and roadmap updates to stakeholders. 

• Influencing decision-making without direct authority.