Principal Engineer, Java, VP

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Java

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability
• You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We’ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

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
• Driving impactful customer outcomes by leading the design and delivery of innovative, secure, and scalable technology architectures with a strong focus on automation, performance, and reusability
• Leading solution design and technical delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs aligned with engineering standards and stakeholder expectations
• Collaborating across functions to define technical strategy, drive innovation, and build scalable, high-performance applications using modern frameworks while mentoring and guiding engineering teams, fostering best practices in software development, automation, and technical documentation

The skills you'll need

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. You'll need at least fourteen years of experience in Java or J2EE, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS and ReactJS.

You'll need proficiency in AI/ML technologies, including hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, and agentic AI frameworks. You'll also need experience in cloud native architecture, microservices, containerization like Docker or Kubernetes and full stack development.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• 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