Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From home working to job sharing, visit the remote and flexible working page on our website to find out more. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. 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
• This role is available 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 customer centric, 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:

• Developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements
• Working with the various feature teams to produce high quality software quickly to add 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
• A point of contact for solution design considerations and delivering bank platforms and services to drive usability across products and domains

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 background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Experience of designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• An understanding of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis