Principal Engineer, Managing Director

As a Principal Engineer for Commercial and Institutional (C&I) Banking, you'll be responsible for defining the architecture, engineering, AI, infrastructure and data strategies and capabilities that ensure our transformation plans support our long-term strategic objectives. You'll also influence the development of organisational-level strategies and identify transformational opportunities across both business and technology domains.

In addition, you'll lead multi-faceted disciplines, including Communities of Practice, while defining and communicating the current, resultant, and target-state architecture, engineering, and data model for CIO. You’ll ensure these capabilities are aligned with, and informed by, our broader strategy, delivering the right outcomes for the bank. You will also be responsible for defining the best practices, standards and guardrails for AI engineering and driving consistent application across technology

You’ll also be responsible for:

Leading complex and technically challenging transformations, while coordinating design and platform teams across multiple domains

Creating and amending standards and policies that are adhered to by the C&I domain, ensuring the business operates in line with industry-leading practices and emerging trends

Managing and growing the engineering and delivery function, including setting standards and policies across these areas and aligning them with strategic outcomes

Drive consistent use of approved AI tools to improve delivery and quality across the C&I domain while ensuring safe, secure and responsible use of AI

Assessing compliance with domain standards across engineering, foundational platform management, innovation, managed service suppliers, testing, environments, and infrastructure

Ensuring the skilled workforce assigned to delivery teams has adequate capacity, capability, development opportunities, and appropriate remuneration

Working closely with business owners and the platform, programme, and service delivery teams across CIO to define the target state