Fixed Income Securities Principal Engineer, Director

Job Description

Join us as a Fixed Income Securities Principal Engineer This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank With your software development background, you ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank You ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities Were offering this role at director level What youll do As a Fixed Income (FI) Securities Principal Engineer, you ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features. You ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards. You ll also be: Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals Making sure that the bank s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality The skills youll need To succeed in this role, you should have an overall experience of 15-20 years in investment banking and banking software development. Youll be FI subject matter expert with at least Seven years of experience in Bonds, Repos and Futures. You ll have a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as have significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. You ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance. You ll also need: FI Subject matter expert with 10 years of experience in Bonds, Repos and Futures trade booking & life cycle management Overall experience of eighteen years in investment banking and banking software development Experience of working in lead transformation, architecture blueprint, decommission of legacy apps creating microservices stack for java based apps Mandatory experience of GCP/Cloud Experience of handling a team size of 20+ individuals including managers and Senior managers across Dev, QA and support Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 29/06/2025