Principal Engineer

Join us as a Principal Engineer

• This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
• With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
• You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards.

You’ll also be:

• Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
• Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
• Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
• Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm. You'll have exposure to IBM Cloud, in particular Watson product set, and familiar with containerised technology such as Kubernetes.

Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of leading cross-functional engineering teams with the ability to coach others
• Demonstratable knowledge of IBM Cloud and other Cloud Service Providers  like Google, AWS and on-prem deployments
• Experience of OpenShift, Java, JavaScript,  CI/CD toolsets and RedHat
• A working knowledge of Security with AI and GenAI
• To clearly articulate in depth technical solutions to various audiences with varying levels of technical understanding as well as the ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions