Backend Prinicpal 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
• Were offering this role at vice president level

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

You ll need a background in leading software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers. It ll be ideal if you have a background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems.

Along with experience in the design and development of Java Spring Boot microservice architecture, youll have an understanding of Java 8 and 11 as well as Spring Core, Security, Data, Boot, and Cloud security concepts such as MTLS, OAuth2, and SSL Pinning. Youll alos need experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis as well as experience of designing and implementing APIs
• Hands on Coding experience in multiple programming languages
• Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies
• Knowledge of relational, in-memory, distributed and NoSQL databases

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