About the Role
We are seeking a highly capable Principal Development Engineer to contribute to the technical architecture, integration design, and evolution of our enterprise platform. This role balances hands-on contribution to solution design with structured collaboration across product, engineering, and client-facing teams.
Responsibilities
- Conduct initial scoping and high-level costing for potential client projects.
- Provide effort estimates and assess integration complexity.
- Lead project initiation from a technical architecture perspective, focusing on integration patterns and flows.
- Contribute to the design of the Corporate Actions solution and its integration into the Broadridge Platform.
- Collaborate with Product Management on data modelling for financial objects.
- Define and document logic placement decisions.
- Answer internal pre-sales questions regarding Corporate Actions and Broadridge Platform architecture.
- Attend pre-sales demos to present high-level architecture and address technical queries.
- Produce and maintain high-quality architecture diagrams showing client integration and Broadridge’s Corporate Actions Platform.
- Ensure documentation is kept current with evolving design decisions.
- Investigate technical challenges and propose solutions.
- Engage engineering teams where broader collaboration is required.
- Facilitate discussions on trade-offs (cost, performance, scalability, complexity) and participate in selecting the best approach.
- Ensure consistency of integration design and architectural approach across multiple projects.
Requirements
- Strong background in software engineering, systems integration, and technical architecture.
- Solid understanding of data modelling, messaging/streaming architectures (Kafka), and relational databases (Postgres).
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions, ideally within financial services or other complex transactional domains.
- Hands-on experience working in Agile development environments.
- Ability to clearly articulate and explain architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Skilled in producing and maintaining architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical, cost, and performance considerations.
- Experience supporting pre-sales engagements, including demos, technical Q&A, and solution presentations.
- Background in capital markets, regulatory, or compliance-driven environments.
- Exposure to large-scale or multi-client platforms, with considerations for performance, customization, and maintainability.
- Familiarity with integration technologies and concepts such as: Real-time messaging, REST APIs, File-based integration, Cloud hosting (including cost and performance considerations), Web application architectures.
Skills
- Technical Architecture
- Integration Design
- Data Modelling
- Kafka
- Postgres
- Agile Development
- Architecture Documentation
- Problem-Solving
- Pre-Sales Support
- Real-time messaging
- REST APIs
- File-based integration
- Cloud hosting
- Web application architectures
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
- Senior
About the Company
- Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with trusted expertise and transformative technology, helping clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow.
- We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.
- Our technology and operations platforms process and generate over 7 billion communications annually and underpin the daily average trading of over $15 trillion in equities, fixed income, and other securities globally.
- A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 15,000 associates in 21 countries.
- We are committed to creating an engaging workplace for the most talented associates in our industry.
- We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and healthy environment that promotes flexibility and accountability.
- As a leading provider of technology, communications, and data and analytics solutions to businesses around the world, it is critical that we understand, embrace, and operate in a multicultural environment.
- Every associate has unique strengths, which, when fully appreciated and embraced, allow individuals to perform at their best, leading to our success.
- We believe that our associates are our most important asset.
- Encouraging professional development opportunities is a core part of our culture.
- Broadridge provides educational opportunities, including formal classes, training programs and events.
- To enable learning in our hybrid working model, Broadridge has redesigned all development programs for 100% virtual delivery.
- Our associates have access to 8,500+ online courses covering business, leadership, technical, and function-specific topics through our LinkedIn Learning program.
Equal Opportunity
- We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work.
- We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.
- As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications.
- These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws.
- Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process.
- Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.
