Join us as a Principal Engineer - Commercial Banking, Director
If you’re an experienced software engineer and you’re ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential
You’ll harness your extensive experience (Cloud and AI models to enhance financial services) and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexity.
Application Security by integrating DevSecOps and security patterns to meet rigorous financial regulatory standards and safeguard data integrity.
Proven track record in full-cycle system design and development, optimizing infrastructure, and ability to influence cross-functional technical teams.
You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues
With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, you’ll coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software, scripts and tools that are customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, you’ll create efficiency where it doesn’t already exist by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward. Lead the design and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and performant cloud-native solutions
You’ll also be responsible for:
Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work
Working with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bank
Drives adoption of AI, machine learning, and emerging agentic platforms to transform financial services capabilities
Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools
Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent
As a senior engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions. Translates complex business requirements into actionable technical strategies
And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.
You'll demonstrate:
Excellent leadership and management skills
Embeds security-first engineering practices by championing DevSecOps, secure coding, and architectural security patterns to meet stringent financial regulatory requirements and protect critical data assets
Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
Good communication skills
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
12/06/2026
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
