Principal Engineer, VP

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
• 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 as 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
• 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
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with extensive experience in full stack software design and implementation, capable of leveraging programming languages to solve complex problems and lead technical initiatives.

• At least 10 years of experience working with development and testing tools, bug tracking tools, and wikis.
• Expertise in coding with Java 17 and above, with significant experience in microservices/API development using SpringBoot, and containerization using Docker.
• Proficiency in using TDD/BDD frameworks like Cucumber/Selenium to ensure code quality.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases such as Postgres and MongoDB, KAFKA/MQ or any other event-driven framework.
• Skilled in using CI/CD tools, preferably GitLab/GitHub, and deploying on AWS Kubernetes clusters using Helm Charts.
• Exposure to cloud deployment, preferably on AWS.
• Proven experience in leading the implementation of programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability, and performance.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies, and associated toolsets like JIRA/Confluence.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business.
• Experience with information security policies and practices within the financial sector.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way.

Additionally, the ideal candidate should demonstrate leadership capabilities, guiding and mentoring team members, and driving the technical vision and strategy for projects. They should be adept at managing and prioritizing multiple tasks and projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

20/05/2025

Experience Level

Senior Level