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
- 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
- We're offering this role at director level
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
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.
Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
You’ll also need:
- A strong background of at least 12 years in leading leading the design and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and performant cloud-native solutions and containerised workloads across complex banking environments, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards
- Exposure to embed security-first engineering practices by championing DevSecOps, secure coding, and architectural security patterns to meet stringent financial regulatory requirements and protect critical data assets
- A background in adoption of AI, machine learning, and emerging agentic platforms to transform financial services capabilities, identifying innovative use cases and accelerating enterprise-wide implementation
- The ability to demonstrates deep expertise across multiple programming languages and technology stacks, ensuring high-quality, high-performance solutions for mission-critical banking systems
- A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
