Principal Engineer, Tech — Enterprise Architect & Leader

Raymondjames; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Raymond James in Saint Petersburg, FL seeks a Principal Engineer to own and lead the architecture and development of enterprise-scale on-prem and cloud applications. This hands-on technical leader writes code, mentors engineers, and guides POCs to validate technologies. The core team collaborates across Wealth Management Technology in a hybrid setup from St.

Petersburg, FL. The ideal candidate excels in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Spark, and CI/CD, and communicates complex trade-offs to

Qualifications

• Proven track record owning and leading technical architecture for enterprise-scale systems.
• Hands-on development in Java, Python, and cloud-native environments.
• Strong communication to explain architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture for on-prem and cloud environments.
• Write production-grade code and set engineering standards.
• Lead POCs to validate new technologies and patterns.
• Design cloud-native microservices and REST APIs.
• Mentor engineers and drive observability and reliability improvements.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

ORM/Hibernate

Python

AWS (EKS, MSK, S3, EMR, Redshift, Glue

MWAA/Airflow

IAM & CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Apache Kafka/Confluent Kafka

Spark

ETL/ELT

SQL/Oracle

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Raymond James in Saint Petersburg, FL seeks a Principal Engineer to own and lead the architecture and development of enterprise-scale on-prem and cloud applications. This hands-on technical leader writes code, mentors engineers, and guides POCs to validate technologies. The core team collaborates across Wealth Management Technology in a hybrid setup from St.

Petersburg, FL. The ideal candidate excels in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Spark, and CI/CD, and communicates complex trade-offs to