Principal Engineer - Vice President Level

Principal Engineer, VP

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is a high-impact position where you’ll design and engineer modern, resilient, and cloud-ready platforms, with customer and user experience at the heart of every solution
• You’ll play a key role in our Engineering Centre of Excellence, elevating engineering standards, guiding strategic technology transformation, and enabling high-performing engineering teams
• This role offers significant senior-level stakeholder exposure, broad architectural responsibilities, and the opportunity to influence and shape the bank’s next generation technology landscapes
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll architect and deliver innovative engineering solutions for complex business problems, ensuring our platforms are secure, scalable, cloud-native, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy. You’ll drive the development of software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. By leading the planning, specification, development, and deployment of high-performance, robust, and resilient systems, you’ll ensure they follow excellent architectural and engineering principles and are fit for purpose. As well as managing the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, you’ll lead wider participation in internal and industry-wide events, conferences, and other activities.

Moreover, you’ll define, govern, and optimise end-to-end engineering designs, with a strong focus on automation, resilience, performance, observability, developer experience, and operational excellence. You’ll oversee the productivity of software engineering teams and be responsible for the consistent use of shared platform components and technologies. Leading engagements with senior stakeholders, you’ll also explore and propose appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Leading the architecture and design of microservices, event-driven systems, BPMN workflows, and distributed platforms, ensuring scalability and resilience
• Defining and maintaining architectural roadmaps, engineering standards, reusable components, and reference implementations
• Driving legacy modernisation by transforming monoliths into cloud-native solutions and leading migration across IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS
• Providing end-to-end technical governance across design, development, testing, security, performance, and release management, ensuring compliance
• Partnering with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to deliver high-quality, high-performance solutions and measurable business value
• Championing engineering excellence through automation, including unit and integration testing, performance tuning, observability, and production troubleshooting
• Mentoring and leading engineers while tracking delivery progress, improving capability, and ensuring platforms meet functionality, scalability, and reliability goals

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to bring significant experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and modern cloud-native development, with a proven track record of delivering complex enterprise applications end-to-end. Alongside strong hands-on technical depth, you’ll also have to demonstrate strong leadership capability in guiding engineering teams through architecture definition, execution, and operationalisation.

In addition, you’ll need:

• Deep expertise of at least 12 years in Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, and building scalable, cloud native applications across AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, PaaS, and CaaS platforms
• Strong experience in Camunda BPMN, event-driven systems, APIs such as REST and SOAP, IAM technologies including Ping, TYK, and JWKS, and enterprise integration patterns
• Solid data engineering capability across SQL and NoSQL technologies such as Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, and DB2, including schema design, optimisation, migrations, and high-volume processing
• Proven technical architecture leadership across large-scale enterprise programs, including cloud migration, legacy transformation, and distributed system design
• Expertise in DevOps and engineering excellence, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing such as TDD and Mockito, code quality tools, release management, and production readiness
• A strong focus on non-functional excellence, including performance optimisation, security, accessibility, observability, and monitoring tools such as Splunk and APM
• Strong leadership, communication, and Financial Crime expertise such as SAR, case management, and workflows, able to mentor teams, influence stakeholders, and drive governance and best practices

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

18/06/2026

Experience Level

Senior Level