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 actively contribute to our architecture, design and 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

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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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We'll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.


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 Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

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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.


A deployment-cum-DevOps Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience to spearhead our deployment strategies and drive innovation in our DevOps practices. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing scalable CI/CD solutions, optimising infrastructure through automation, and mentoring team members in best practices. A deep understanding of cloud platforms, container orchestration, and monitoring systems is required, alongside a proven track record in leading cross-functional projects. Your role will be pivotal in shaping our DevOps culture and enhancing overall operational efficiency .


You'll also need:

Essential expertise in Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD, DORA Metrics, security (SAST and DAST tooling), Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, Control Plane), Logging & Monitoring (ELK Stack, Splunk or Sumologic, CloudTrail, Cloud Watch) Certification in AWS like Cloud Practitioner, Cloud Architect, Cloud Security etc and/or HashiCorp certification for Terraform, Linux foundation Certificate for Kubernetes, ITIL certification would be a preferential advantage for the candidate A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools A background in designing or implementing APIs The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions * A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis