Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer (Java, Microservices & API) 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 Were offering this role at director level What youll 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 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 The skills youll need We re looking for someone with expert level of JAVA, Microservice and API knowledge who has built, managed, and scaled always-on cloud native systems. You will have in depth knowledge of modern software design patterns along with experience of using frameworks/libraries such as spring, akka, resilience4j and Icon Payments Framework (IPF). You ll also need: Significant and demonstrable experience in JAVA. Expertise in automated deployment pipelines using either GitLab or GitHub along with infrastructure as code elements such as helm charts. Significant experience in test-driven development using automated test frameworks long with mocking and stubbing frameworks. A strong people leader who has built high performing cross functional engineering teams. Expertise in observability tooling such as cloud watch, Loki, Prometheus and Grafana 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