Principal - Systems Engineer

Ally; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ally is seeking a Principal – System Engineer to join our team to support the organization’s Federal Reserve and SEC platforms. This high visibility role in a regulated environment focuses on Nasdaq Axiom (AxiomSL) and Workiva SEC applications to produce financial submissions.

You will partner with Business, Technology, and Risk teams to maintain stability, onboard new requirements, and support data integration.

Qualifications

• Financial reporting fluency.
• DevSecOps acumen.
• Experience with end-to-end data processing and transformation.

Responsibilities

• Manage environment consistency across QA, UAT, and production tiers, including data refreshes and pre-release configuration validation.
• Monitor and validate scheduled batch runs for Federal Reserve and SEC submissions, reconcil.

Skills

Environment management

Data pipeline

Regulatory reporting

Batch processing

Tools

AxiomSL

Workiva SEC

Job description

Hybrid

Charlotte, NC

Detroit, MI

Full time

R2600862

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

Seeking a Principal – System Engineer to join our team to support the organization’s Federal Reserve and SEC platforms. This is a high visibility role within a regulated environment offering exposure to complex reporting programs across an intricate data ecosystem. The role is responsible for the administration, configuration, and ongoing support of the Nasdaq Axiom (AxiomSL) and Workiva SEC applications used to produce financial submissions to the organization’s governing bodies. The engineer will partner closely with Business, Technology, and Risk teams to maintain platform stability, onboard new reporting requirements, and support data integration across upstream source systems in an Agile environment. Day-to-day responsibilities include troubleshooting data pipeline failures, managing release management activities, and implementing configuration changes in response to regulatory rule updates. The role requires financial reporting fluency, strong devsecops acumen, and pipeline management knowledge, plus prior experience in end-to-end data processing and transformation.

The Work Itself

• Manage environment consistency across QA, UAT, and production tiers, including data refreshes and pre-release configuration validation

• Monitor and validate scheduled batch runs for Federal Reserve and SEC submissions, reconcil