Principal (Distinguished) Engineer-Product Engineering
About the position When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life. Responsibilities • Mentor and coach the team on API-first best practices and skills including API design, technical performance, and documentation. • Organize focus group sessions, trainings and newsletters to create awareness on API design, API gateway, onboarding and integrations. • Conduct interviews to hire product managers and software developers to implement the API-first platform. • Build cross-functional partnerships at multiple levels and provide technical solutions to stakeholders. • Gather technical requirements and work with architects, engineers and designers to implement backend systems and software applications. • Define operating model as an API-first company across strategy, planning, business, technology, and operations functions. • Pilot the operating model and implement changes to improve processes and technical infrastructure. • Work with API enablement partner to envision, design, and plan for API-first transformation. • Own the API-first transformation/program business case to help leadership realize its direct benefits. • Create innovative incentive structures to motivate the team to adopt to API-first. • Provide directional inputs to the API-first training efforts to ensure teams are ready for transformation. • Strategically roll out API-first transformation and ensure its adoption across teams. • Identify re-usable assets and develop APIs to promote re-use and adoption. • Define metrics and KPIs, identify technology solutions/tools to capture key metrics or build in-house platforms to manage integrations with various data sources. • Build data models, capture metrics and develop user interface for visualization. • Publish scorecards to leadership. • Champion all aspects of API-first transformation program roadmap and evangelize it at all levels. • Lay out and execute a plan to provide the governance and ensure compliance. Requirements • Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. • 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or as a software engineer/developer, engineering/technical lead, or in a related/similar position. • 6 years in technical product management, including end-to-end product lifecycle, roadmap development and prioritization, Agile/Scrum methodologies, market research and competitive analysis, product KPIs/metrics development, user story creation, project/program management, and team supervision. • 6 years in software development life cycle, using Python, Java, Angular, Typescript, JavaScript, C++, C#, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, APIs and microservices architecture, DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. • 5 years in gathering/prioritizing customer requirements, building/maintaining relationships with stakeholders, conducting product demos/presentations, translating customer feedback into actionable product improvement, and creating technical documentation, product specifications/requirements, user manuals and support documentation. • 5 years with data analysis using SQL, data visualization tools, data analytics frameworks, A/B testing, statistical analysis, and deriving insights from large datasets. • 4 years with User Experience (UX), including user-friendly design and usability testing, using wireframing and prototyping tools, and collaborating with UX designer to design customer facing user interfaces. Benefits • Hybrid role, ability to work from home. • Travel to and work from Verizon's office in Boston, MA. Apply tot his job