Join us as a Principal Engineer
- You’ll drive development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into a suitable design
- As well managing the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, you’ll lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
- By leading the planning, specifying, development and deployment of high performance, robust and resilient systems, you’ll ensure they follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
- We're offering this role at vice president level
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll oversee the productivity of the software engineering teams, and you’ll be responsible for the consistent use of shared platform components and technologies. Leading engagements with senior stakeholders, you’ll explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Monitoring technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
- Delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the organisation
- Designing and develop high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies, and designing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the organisation
- Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality
You'll need at least 17 years of experience in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, and significant experience developing software in an SOA or micro-services paradigm. Along with a background in leading software development teams, introducing and executing technical strategies, you’ll have development experience in one or more programming languages.
We’ll also be looking for:
- Expertise in application programming languages like Java and .Net along with knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP and Azure
- Experience in data engineering and dataware house along with knowledge of SQL concepts
- Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, as well as mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools
- Experience of project working and commercial development processes, particularly Agile methodologies
- A background in designing or implementing APIs, and an-depth knowledge of large scale database and NoSQL design and optimisation
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
09/02/2026Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
