Software Engineer Principal

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success.

As a Software Engineer Principal within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA or Cleveland, OH.

- Serve as the primary technical owner of the web platform implementation supporting enterprise digital properties - Design and develop scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions across CMS, hosting, and delivery layers - Ensure platform capabilities support high-quality content delivery, personalization, and user experience - Implement personalization strategies (targeting, segmentation, dynamic content delivery) - Partner with UX/design teams to translate designs into high-fidelity, performant implementations - Continuously improve page speed, responsiveness, and engagement outcomes - Enable efficient content authoring, publishing, and workflow capabilities within the platform - Ensure content delivery supports multi-channel and multilingual needs - Integrate and optimize personalization engines, data layers, and targeting logic - Establish and follow best practices for: o Component-based architecture o API integrations o Performance optimization - Lead adoption of modern development patterns (e.g., headless, microservices where applicable) - Optimize how code moves from development, to pipeline, and to production - Contribute to improvements in build pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes - Drive front-end and platform-level performance tuning - Support integration with security controls, to support scanning, monitoring, and access control

- Aligns business strategy with software solutions. - Proposes, designs & codes software solutions to address complex business needs. Oversees technical and procedural documentation required. - Leads complex problem solving. - Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues and solution development. - Displays an innovative approach to apply modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.

Preferred Skills Application Development, Business Management, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Software Solutions, Team Support, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies Application Design, Architecture, Packaged Application Integration, Product and Vendor Evaluation, Software Process Improvement (SPI), System Development Life Cycle, Technical Troubleshooting

Work Experience Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 06/24/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.