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
- With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
- You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
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 leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.
You’ll also 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
- 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
- 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
- Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with significant experience in software architecture and engineering, as well as in software and database design, combined with strong experience in developing software within continuous delivery, DevOps, and Agile environments. Alongside an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies, and tools, you’ll also need to have substantial, demonstrable experience in implementing programming best-practices, particularly in the areas of scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need the ability to use this expertise to quickly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions that align with our architectural goals and standards.
In addition, you’ll need:
- A strong background in leading software development teams, shaping and executing technical strategies, and providing both individual and group coaching and mentoring
- Extensive experience in designing scalable and resilient architectures using techniques suited for real-time systems, including microservices, event streaming, and distributed data
- Significant experience with test-driven development, including the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing, contract testing, and unit testing tools
- A background in designing or implementing APIs and microservices, as well as the infrastructure required to run them
- Strong experience with cloud-computing platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services
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