Principal Platform Engineer

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

What you'll 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 you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in infrastructure software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience 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 practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A background in leading engineering development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• Expert knowledge of  Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or Ansible with experience integrating it into CI/CD pipelines and release management
• Familiarity with, and ability to install, configure and manage stateful, persistence technologies and broker/queuing systems, like NoSQL DBs, and Kafka
• Strong experience in observability platforms, with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience in Linux systems administration, including networking management and security best practices

Hours

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