Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• We're in search of someone who,
• Thrives in acquiring & applying findings to create customer & business value.
• Has experiences working in and leading multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
• Is excited at the prospect of changing the status quo, inspiring change with new insights, ideas and encouraging experimentations or market research.
• Has established systems engineering or solution architecture experience & appreciation of software engineering methods such as Behaviour & Test Driven Development.
• Enjoys communicating & influencing collaborators with little or no technical knowledge, influencing their thinking on the art of the possible through technology.
• Can identify appropriate project, architecture, service or risk management methodologies that enable customer value realisation.
• Is excited to translate varied technology requirements into relevant solutions.
• Is well averse in defining solutions using Agile, Emergent & Intentional architecture methods.
• Has substantive experiences defining architectural runways or solution architecture roadmaps for inclusive systems which span adaptive infrastructure domains at Digital-scale.
• Has established experiences partnering with other collaborators such as Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or address business problems.
• Holds proficient experiences leading activities associated with Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
• Has appreciation for Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Software patterns or similar.
• Understands how & where third party products could be appropriate, knowledge of technology purchasing processes & best practise.
• Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Labs, through defining a strategy and designing solutions to deliver our target cloud architecture.
• Capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.
• Strong architecture skills with a good working knowledge of microservice design patterns, containerised applications, infrastructure as code in containerised environments, embedding DevSecOps principles to support delivery at scale and designing solutions at scale.
• Strong communication and Leadership skills
• Here's where you'll make a difference:
• Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Group technology landscape, ensuring value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role driving the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.
• Our continued commitment to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
• Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
• We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

Required Skills

• You will have skillsets to cover below as a minimum;
• Experienced with the full software development lifecycle and relevant frameworks
• A proven track record of the Spring boot and / or Quarkus frameworks, Git workflows, testing (TDD, Mock object), and DevOps toolchains
• Designing and developing Microservices using Sprint Boot, Quarkus and Reacting programming with Spring Boot
• Java and J2EE development expertise, Databases RDBMS and NO-SQL
• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as ReactJS, Redux, Webpack and modern toolsets like test automation, Kubernetes and Jenkins
• Experience with REST APIs
• Experience of microservice and micro front-end design, container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm)
• Cloud Deployment experience
• Phenomenal teamwork and communication skills as well as team leader/mentoring experience
• Experienced in building and deploying microservices with strong debugging experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Databases and GCP cloud.
• Expertise in tools such as Dynatrace, CI/CD, GCP cloud deployment, Curl, and Postman.
• Hands on in Kubernetes and Docker. Preferable to have exposure to Terraform, Istio and Helm charts.
• Work with the DevOps tools team to develop for microservices deployment with CICD pipelines.
• Experience with Releases and deployments to production, troubleshooting in production.
• Experience with messaging and integration frameworks like JMS, MQ, and Kafka.
• Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services. Develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problems.
• Ability to multi-task and also work independently to meet the committed deadlines.
• Identifies and evaluates complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
• Leadership skills with experience of managing multiple teams
• Manages the development and/or operation of knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Analyses specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions.
• Qualifications: 16+ years of relevant experience in design, development and architecting complex software solutions 8+ years of experience working as a hands-on software developer architecting end-to-end solutions 6+ years of experience working in large financial services; preferably banking industry 5+ years of Systems Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 3+ years of experience in Consumer Lending and Analytics functions 2+ years of experience with Google Cloud/ Azure Cloud/ AWS (or comparable CSP) 2+ years of complex service-oriented architecture and data analytics or AI/ML experience
• 16+ years of relevant experience in design, development and architecting complex software solutions
• 8+ years of experience working as a hands-on software developer architecting end-to-end solutions
• 6+ years of experience working in large financial services; preferably banking industry
• 5+ years of Systems Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of experience in Consumer Lending and Analytics functions
• 2+ years of experience with Google Cloud/ Azure Cloud/ AWS (or comparable CSP)
• 2+ years of complex service-oriented architecture and data analytics or AI/ML experience

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