Principal Engineering Leader

greatamerica; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GreatAmerica is seeking a Principal Engineering Leader to guide a high-performing team of Platform Administrators responsible for secure, scalable Salesforce-based platforms and enterprise integrations. You will own platform strategy, drive end-to-end delivery, and partner with product and security teams to ensure governance, compliance, and innovation across key enterprise systems.

This role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and collaboration in a regulated financial services context, with a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise/Salesforce Platform Administration or Systems Engineering.
• 5+ years of technical leadership and people management preferred.
• Hands-on configuration, upgrades, and release cycles of Salesforce Platforms.
• Working in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Administrators, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define and execute Salesforce platform administration strategy and roadmap; drive platform adoption and reduce technical debt.
• Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise Salesforce platforms initiatives with quality, timeliness, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Oversee platform governance, security, data quality, and change management; ensure regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Agile / SAFe

Cloud / DevOps mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field

Tools

Salesforce

OpenAPI / API design

Job description

We Are Looking to Add a Key Member to Our Technology Group!

GreatAmerica is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth. We have also recently become a bank!

As Principal Engineering Leader, you will lead a high-performing team of Platform Administrators to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions across GreatAmerica's key enterprise platforms. You'll combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to drive platform excellence, team growth, and business impact.

As a Principal Engineering Leader, you will:

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Administrators, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
• Advocate for the team's priorities within the broader engineering and product organization.
• Recruit and retain top talent.
• Promote a DevOps mindset and continuous delivery culture.
• Create inclusive, high-trust environments that empower individuals and teams.

Platform Strategy

• Define and execute Salesforce platform administration strategy and roadmap
• Drive platform adoption, optimization, simplification and technical debt reduction.
• Evaluate new platform capabilities and recommend opportunities for business use cases.

Technical Delivery & Innovation

• Own end-to-end delivery of GreatAmerica's key enterprise/ Salesforce platforms initiatives, ensuring quality, timeliness, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Stay current with platform capabilities and releases. Review, Plan and Communicate Salesforce major releases.
• Stay current with Financial Industry platform capabilities, releases, and ecosystem trends.
• Drive innovation through evaluation and adoption of new enterprise platform features, tools, and integrations.
• Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in Solution Review and Architecture Review Forums to uphold platform integrity and best practices.

Architecture, Governance & Administration/Development

• Own the end-to-end administration of one or more enterprise/Salesforce platforms
• Establish appropriate controls for privileged access and segregation of duties.
• Oversee licenses usage, user profiles, permission sets, roles, sharing, security, data quality, workflows, reports / dashboards and other platform configurations.
• Partner with IAM for automating user access management.
• Review / Evaluate third party packages with vendors and business stakeholders
• Implement robust logging, monitor system performance, availability, and usage; proactively address issues and optimize performance.
• Collaborate with engineering and business teams to implement customizations, workflows, and integrations.
• Maintain platform documentation, configuration standards, and change logs.
• Ensure platforms comply with data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders for support escalations, roadmap planning, and feature adoption.
• Troubleshoot and resolve enterprise platform issues, ensuring platform health.

Integration & Data Collaboration

• Provide OpenAPI Specifications (OAS) for external teams integrating with enterprise platforms.
• Collaborate with other teams on data modeling, access, and integration concerns.
• Extend support for functional and non-functional testing teams to ensure quality delivery.

Collaboration & Agile Execution

• Partner closely with Product Owners and cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, demos, grooming, and standups.
• Contribute to design discussions, solution reviews, and process improvements.
• Support cross-team dependencies and contribute to Agile Release Train planning (SAFe framework experience is a plus).

To be successful in this role you will need:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or related field.

Experience :

• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise/Salesforce Platform Administration or Systems Engineering.
• 5+ years of technical leadership and people management preferred

Proven expertise in:

• Hands-on configuration, upgrades, and release cycles of Salesforce Platforms (Enterprise Platforms such as Open Finance Platforms, Fiserv and/or other Financial Platforms/Salesforce)
• Working in regulated environments
• Git workflows, pull request reviews, merge conflict resolution
• Agile/Scrum methodologies; SAFe experience preferred
• Middleware and cross-platform integrations patterns
• Evaluating third party solutions (Salesforce packages).

Skills & Abilities

• Candidates must possess exceptional interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with internal & external resources, clients, and third parties

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