Principal Software Engineer - Technical Leadership in Commercial Lending

Principal Software Engineer, Commercial Lending, Director

Join us as a Principal Software Engineer, Director

• If you’re an experienced principal software engineer and looking for a new challenge, this technical leadership role in commercial lending is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential

• You’ll harness your extensive experience and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexity

• You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues

• We're offering the role at Director level

What you'll do

With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, you’ll provide thought leadership, coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software that  is customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, you’ll continually create efficiency  by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions

• Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work

• Working with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bank

• Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools

• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent

The skills you'll need

As a senior principal engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of the commercial lending domain, our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.

You'll demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and management skills

• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice

• Significant experience within the commercial lending domain

• Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages

• Experience in large scale transformative programme execution

• Experience in Cloud native solutions and CI/CD practices

• Experience in AI based solutions

• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills

• Good communication skills, bold and assertive

• Significant experience in translating and communicating complex technical subjects in a simple manner to senior leadership of the bank

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

24/04/2026

Experience Level

Senior Level