This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development, software development life cycles and engineering culture 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
Were offering this role at director level
What youll 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 youll 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.
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:
Strong hands-on experience of engineering high quality software and managing, coaching and mentoring the technical delivery of several software engineering teams
Knowledge of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
Experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
A background in designing or implementing APIs
Experience of overseeing technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions