Principal Engineering Leader

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