Principal Engineer
Appnovation Technologies4 days ago
Toronto, Canada +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own a unified technical approach spanning content creation, governance, publishing, experience delivery, measurement, tagging, and reporting.
- Set shared standards for API contracts, metadata, taxonomy, data governance, and security across platform teams.
- Lead architecture reviews and RFCs, resolve cross-team technical issues, and document major decisions.
- Own the strategy for tracing content, experience, and performance data from creation through publication and results.
- Develop buildable approaches for AI-enabled patient and HCP experiences, including services callable by AI assistants and agents.
- Lead reusable AI skills, agents, and services for delivery teams and the wider organization.
- Represent engineering to senior client stakeholders on cost, risk, scale, sequencing, and technical trade-offs.
- Guide innovation from rapid validation through production delivery in regulated environments.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise technical standards through design reviews and hands-on work.
- Travel to client and Appnovation locations as needed.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software and platform engineering experience designing systems across organizational boundaries.
- Proven success aligning multiple engineering roadmaps around shared data contracts and standards.
- Experience building, approving, and launching new technology in a regulated environment.
- Hands-on applied AI experience with assistants, agents, tool and context interfaces such as MCP, retrieval over approved content, evaluation, guardrails, and traceability.
- Experience designing patient-facing or clinician-facing technology, or a clear understanding of its additional duty of care.
- Experience integrating with partner and third-party platforms outside the organization’s control.
- Ability to lead without positional authority and establish direction across teams.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in three or four marketing technology areas and working knowledge of the broader stack.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience in pharma, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
- Preferred experience with Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Workfront, Veeva Vault, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, enterprise GenAI services, identity and API gateways, and middleware or integration patterns.
- Preferred content supply chain experience, including digital asset management, metadata, taxonomy, workflow, promotional review, claims libraries, and content reuse.
- Commercial fluency with enterprise vendor agreements, licensing, and consumption models.
- Prior consulting experience and, preferably, life sciences industry experience or connections.
Benefits
- Travel to client and Appnovation locations may be required as needed.
- Appnovation is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations upon request throughout the recruitment process.
Tech Stack
AWSCloudflare
Categories
About Appnovation Technologies
Appnovation Technologies is a privately held digital consultancy that designs, builds, and supports customer-facing platforms for enterprises, combining strategy, UX, engineering, and managed services. Its teams deliver web and mobile development, Drupal and open-source implementations, Atlassian consulting, and data/AI-enabled solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, it serves global clients including Pfizer, Google, Yeti, TCL, and AstraZeneca.