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Our client is hiring several Principal Engineers to drive the development and design of several greenfield retail banking platforms as our clients rebuild their product portfolio to become a digital powerhouse. This is a senior leadership position where the chosen engineer will lead real-time architectural decision-making across savings, lending, and faster payment applications. Our client is paying a basic salary of £100,000 + 25% bonus + benefits to be based in Wolverhampton one time per week.
Our client is seeking experienced engineers with recent retail/digital banking experience who can design new product roadmaps, focus on architectural challenges, and provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of engineers.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Lead the development and implementation of a modern cloud foundation and data platform that is robust, scalable, fully automated, secure, and can support the growth of the business.
2. Build Scalable Architectures: Leverage modern technologies to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native solutions.
3. API Development and Integration: Design and build secure RESTful and GraphQL APIs, ensuring seamless integration with core banking systems (e.g., Mambu) and external services like Open Banking platforms.
4. Data Engineering and Analytics: Work closely with data teams to define robust data pipelines and scalable cloud-based data platforms using tools like Apache Kafka, Snowflake, or Databricks.
5. Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Implement advanced monitoring and observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
6. Code and System Optimisation: Proactively analyse and optimise existing systems for improved performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Core skill set for this position:
1. Strong experience building and scaling banking systems (Lending, Payments, or Mortgages) with a focus on security compliance and performance is a must.
2. Experience leading upon architectural challenges, system scalability, and guidance of engineering teams is a must.
3. A background in Java, C#, Python, or React development with experience providing hands-on technical leadership is a must.
4. New Product Ramping (approach to ramping up new products with less-experienced teams, providing clear strategies for facilitating MVP products in market and enabling teams to perform at scale) is a must.
5. Digital transformation experience, moving from on-premise to modern cloud service using Azure, is a must.
Benefits: £100,000 / 25% bonus / 28 days holiday / Holiday Purchase Scheme / Occasional travel / Health Insurance / 13% pension / plus much more.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology and Consulting
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting, Information Services, and Technology, Information and Media
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