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About the Role
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be a senior technical leader within our Transformation Engineering Chapter, co-owning a product squad with a Product Manager and setting the engineering direction for critical banking services. You’ll stay close to the code, shape architecture, raise delivery standards and help our squads ship safely, independently and frequently.
Responsibilities
- Co-own a high-performing engineering squad with a Product Manager, making pragmatic technical decisions on scope, sequencing and approach within agreed guardrails.
- Define and evolve technical architecture across distributed systems, domain boundaries, API strategy, event-driven integration, data flows and non-functional requirements.
- Architect and scale cloud-native platforms, enabling continuous deployment and progressive release strategies.
- Lead by pairing on complex problems, reviewing critical changes, unblocking delivery and coaching engineers.
- Drive engineering excellence through test automation, trunk-based development, CI/CD optimisation, secure coding, observability, service-level objectives and effective production incident response.
- Embed AI-assisted engineering practices into day-to-day delivery.
- Design robust third-party and vendor integration patterns.
- Create an open, collaborative and inclusive engineering culture that encourages experimentation, continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Build secure, resilient, well-governed technology from the start.
Requirements
- Significant software engineering experience, ideally with principal-level technical leadership in agile, product-led or squad-based delivery environments.
- Strong technical architecture judgement across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event streaming, data platforms, integration patterns and cloud-native service design.
- Hands-on engineering credibility, with depth in one or two areas and breadth across modern software delivery, including front-end, back-end, data and infrastructure.
- Deep experience with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery, observability and production operations.
- Confidence using AI-enabled engineering tools to improve quality, speed and traceability, while maintaining strong human oversight.
- Proven ability to build, run and continuously improve secure, observable, resilient and auditable services in a regulated or high-accountability environment.
- Clear, collaborative communication and coaching skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product partners, platform teams and third-party delivery partners.
- Practical experience with modern engineering toolchains and technologies such as GitHub Actions, Kafka, Kong, Databricks, Azure Kubernetes Service, React, React Native, Java, automated testing and API gateways.
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Microservices
- APIs
- Event streaming
- Data platforms
- Cloud-native service design
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure-as-code
- CI/CD pipelines
- Progressive delivery
- Observability
- Production operations
- AI-enabled engineering tools
- GitHub Actions
- Kafka
- Kong
- Databricks
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- React
- React Native
- Java
- Automated testing
- API gateways
Location
- AMAZE Central - Holborn
- Greater London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Principal-level technical leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Pension scheme
- Healthcare
- Life assurance
- Access to our colleague discount portal
About the Company
- We are reimagining what a modern, relationship-led bank can be.
- We are thinking boldly about our future, challenging traditional ways of working and creating the foundations for long-term success.
- We are a bank, so risk is part of everything we do.
Equal Opportunity
- Diverse teams really are the best teams.
- We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box.
- We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked.
- So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not give it a whirl?