Principal Engineer Northampton

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Northampton

Your Role

• Owning the engineering direction across Corporate Mobile and identity platforms
• You will lead engineering across native mobile applications for UK and international corporate banking clients alongside customer identity capabilities including authentication enrolment and digital signing
• Engineering mobile authentication and signing journeys for corporate banking customers – you will design and evolve how corporate clients authenticate and approve actions on mobile ensuring solutions meet security regulatory and usability requirements across markets
• Leading architectural and engineering decision making at platform level – you will make clear architectural and engineering decisions when trade‑offs arise ensuring consistency, scalability and long‑term maintainability across mobile and identity platforms
• Working within a regulated corporate banking environment – you will deliver solutions that meet regulatory and security expectations such as PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication, GDPR and audit requirements across jurisdictions
• Providing hands‑on delivery leadership – you will support delivery teams by unblocking technical issues, guiding complex implementations and ensuring engineering work progresses predictably from requirements through to testing and release
• Leading a customer identity CIAM migration alongside an established Corporate Mobile platform
• You will guide the transition to modern identity capabilities while continuing to strengthen and evolve a high‑scale mobile platform used by corporate banking clients
• Setting engineering standards and ways of working – you will define and uphold engineering principles, patterns and quality standards across Corporate Mobile and identity, shaping how teams build, test and operate software
• Working closely with product security and senior stakeholders – you will translate complex mobile and identity topics into clear options and recommendations, aligning engineering priorities with business and client outcomes

Accountabilities

• Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellenceContribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps
• Design and implementation of complex scalable and maintainable software solutions, considering long‑term viability and business objectives
• Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid‑level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development
• Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies and industry practices into the engineering process

Disability Statement

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Make It Real (What does it mean for you)

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To support wellbeing we have trained “Mental Health Champions” across each of our business areas and invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s “learning for life” mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons and access to 250,000 courses including external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and more.
• You will join one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will help create a future we can all be proud of.

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