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 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
• We're offering this role at vice president level

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 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

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework. We’d also like to see significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background of at least 12 years in leading l eading the design and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and performant cloud-native solutions and containerised workloads across complex banking environments, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards
• Exposure to e mbed security-first engineering practices by championing DevSecOps, secure coding, and architectural security patterns to meet stringent financial regulatory requirements and protect critical data assets
• A background in adoption of AI, machine learning, and emerging agentic platforms to transform financial services capabilities, identifying innovative use cases and accelerating enterprise-wide implementation
• The ability to d emonstrates deep expertise across multiple programming languages and technology stacks, ensuring high-quality, high-performance solutions for mission-critical banking systems
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

01/07/2026