Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Technology Operations, Risk & Compliance (TORC) is ACC's first-line operating system for controls, risk management and remediation, compliance, and resilience. TORC operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology operations, risk, controls, compliance, resilience, and enterprise transformation, turning ACC priorities and enterprise obligations into measurable controls, actionable intelligence, accountability, and sustained risk reduction. TORC is entering the next phase of that evolution: engineering risk and control capabilities that operate at enterprise scale. A cornerstone of this work is the Unified System of Controls (USC), a strategic ACC product intended to provide a sustainable command-and-control capability for controls, bringing together control expectations, procedures, measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, ownership, and accountability.

Job Summary

The role will also establish close engineering partnerships with Product Security (ProdSec) and Security Operations (SecOps) across ACC, leveraging and integrating their capabilities into TORC products where appropriate and avoiding creation of parallel security engineering capabilities. The Principal Engineer will help build the engineering function required to make that ambition real.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the TORC Engineering Function

• Build and mature TORC's engineering capability, including the talent, engineering practices, operating model, delivery discipline, and technical competencies necessary to deliver enterprise-scale products.
• Establish an engineering culture centered on quality, automation, reliability, security, reuse, observability, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization capable of solving complex technology, risk, and control problems.
• Establish clear engineering accountability and decision rights while developing future technical leaders and strengthening engineering capability across the organization.
• Create reusable engineering patterns and capabilities that enable TORC to scale beyond individual solutions.

Deliver the Unified System of Controls (USC)

• Provide senior engineering leadership for the Unified System of Controls, translating its product direction and requirements into scalable, production-grade technology.
• Lead engineering delivery of capabilities supporting control measurement, evidence, reporting, exceptions, workflow, integration, accountability, and decision-grade insight.
• Enable the movement from point-in-time and manually intensive control processes toward sustainable capabilities supported by automation and continuous telemetry.
• Ensure USC engineering is designed for enterprise scale, sustainability, interoperability, security, reliability, and reuse.
• Establish an extensible engineering foundation that can support additional TORC and ACC strategic products over time.

Translate Strategy and Product Direction into Engineering Execution

• Partner with Digital Product leadership to convert product vision, priorities, and outcomes into executable engineering roadmaps and delivery.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to determine how capabilities should be implemented within established enterprise technology and architecture direction.
• Bring an engineering perspective into product discovery, helping teams understand technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, scalability, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Maintain strong discipline between strategy ownership, product ownership, architecture accountability, and engineering execution.

What Success Looks Like

Success is not simply delivering a technology solution. It is establishing engineering as a durable capability within TORC.

The Principal Engineer will have:

• Built a mature, high-performing TORC engineering function with clear accountability, strong talent, disciplined engineering practices, and an outcome-oriented culture.
• Delivered significant engineering capabilities supporting the Unified System of Controls and demonstrated that USC can operate as a sustainable enterprise product.
• Created strong working relationships across Platform Consulting, Digital Product, Architecture, Product Security, Security Operations, and other ACC engineering functions.
• Established reusable engineering capabilities that can scale additional TORC and ACC strategic products.
• Increased the use of automation, integration, telemetry, and continuous measurement within TORC products.
• Demonstrated that complex risk and control challenges can increasingly be addressed through sustainable engineering rather than additional manual process.
• Established TORC Engineering as a trusted, high-impact tech