Principal Engineer

Job Description:

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

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 strong experience in software architecture and engineering, and in software and database design, as well as proven experience of developing software within a continuous delivery, DevOps, and Agile framework. Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies, and tools, you'll bring significant, demonstrable experience in implementing programming best-practices, especially in the areas of scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, performance, and cost efficiency.

To succeed in this role, you'll need to have the ability to use this expertise to quickly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions that align with our architectural goals and standards.

In addition, you'll need:

* A strong background in working with software development teams, introducing technical strategies and providing guidance, with coding experience required as you may write code yourself
* Extensive experience in designing scalable and resilient architectures using techniques suited for real-time systems, including microservices, event streaming, and distributed data
* Significant experience in test-driven development, including automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing, contract testing, and unit testing tools
* A background in designing or implementing APIs and microservices, as well as the infrastructure required to run them
* Strong experience with cloud-computing platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services, however other platforms are acceptable
Hours35

Job Posting Closing Date:16/04/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First