Distinguished Engineer

Anticipated End Date: 2026-09-23 Position Title: Distinguished Engineer Job Description: Distinguished Engineer Location: This role requires associates to be in-office  3  days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace.

Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law. The Distinguished Engineer is responsible for driving the definition, standardization, and alignment of application architecture across horizontal capabilities and Lines of Business (LOBs) within CTBEO; ensuring interoperability and alignment of application architectures with enterprise strategy; leading cross-functional architecture forums to resolve design conflicts, drive architectural decisions, and promote the reuse of common capabilities across the enterprise; and collaborating across stakeholders to define and enable architectures for new and evolving strategic initiatives.

How You Will Make an Impact Primary duties may include, but are not limited to: Define enterprise-wide technical direction, including architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities. Lead AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation, service decomposition, and continuous optimization. Design and implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.

Establish technical standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for AI systems, including monitoring, evaluation, and responsible AI. Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable adoption of AI-assisted development and drive continuous improvement in system performance and productivity. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing enterprise technology decisions through deep expertise and hands-on engineering.

Minimum Requirements: Requires a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and a minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures, or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages also required, as well as experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures, and applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences: Advanced experience designing and leading distributed systems and large-scale architectures is strongly preferred, as well as experience establishing enterprise technology standards and influencing technical direction across multiple teams or business domains. Experience serving as a technical authority for software engineering practices, architecture, platform strategy, and modern application architectures, including APIs, microservices, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices, is strongly preferred.

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