Principal Engineer, director

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• With your software development background, you ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
• You ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
• We are offering this role at director level

As a Principal Engineer, you ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You ll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

You ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You ll also need:

• Minimum eighteen years of IT experience with a strong track record in leading software development teams and delivering enterprise-grade solutions.
• Strong expertise in GCP services, Java technologies, Python, CI/CD tools, and database management across SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Knowledge in system monitoring and performance analysis using tools like Splunk, GCP Observability, Prometheus, and Grafana, with broad OS knowledge including Unix, RHEL, and Windows
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis