Principal Software Engineer - Vice President Level

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 be playing a major role in the 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 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. 

You’ll also be:

• 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
• Working with the various feature teams to produce software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform’s software throughout its life
• 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

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in designing and owning end‑to‑end tech platform architecture, ensuring scalability, resiliency, low‑latency execution, and seamless integration across all components. We’ll also look for experience in driving change through to a successful conclusion and the ability to influence at all levels. We’d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A strong knowledge on defining and governing technical standards for APIs, data models, integration patterns, cloud adoption, and event‑driven architectures to support high‑volume system
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in FX and FI products specifically covering FX Spot, Orders, Options, Analytics domain
• Experience of working in a dynamic environment often with shifting priorities
• Knowledge on Cloud platforms preferrable GCP/AWS for hosting scalable, cloud native workloads

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

13/04/2026

Experience Level

Senior Level