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're 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. You should also have experience of extracting value and features from large scale data.

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. An understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and end customers and knowledge of modern code development practices is desirable.

You'll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Advanced experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, exploration and analysis, and data warehousing and data modelling capabilities
• Experience of using programming languages primarily Python, alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• Strong knowledge of AWS Data engineering services and Data mesh architecture along data products definition and distribution frameworks
• Basic knowhow of AWS AI services along with language models and core ML
• Background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools, wikis and an understanding of modern code development practices