At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and development of innovative banking platforms with cutting-edge technology.
- Company: Join a leading financial services corporation transforming digital banking.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 25% bonus, health insurance, and generous holiday allowance.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the future of banking while leading a talented team.
- Qualifications: Experience in payment systems and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Our long-term trusted partner, a leading financial services corporation, is hiring a Principal Engineer to drive the development and design of several greenfield retail banking platforms as our clients rebuild their product portfolio to become a digital powerhouse.
This is a senior leadership position where the chosen engineer will lead real-time architectural decision making leading vision & strategy across
Faster Payments, Real-Time Payments, Card payments, BACS, mobile wallets and APIs.
Our client is paying a basic salary up to £110,000 (circa) + 25% bonus + benefits to be based in London, Chatham (Kent) or Wolverhampton onsite 2 days per week.
Our client is seeking experienced engineers with recent retail / digital banking experience who can design new product roadmaps, focus on architectural challenges, and provide hands‑on technical leadership to a team of engineers.
Your responsibilities will include
- Lead the development and implementation of a modern cloud foundation and data platform that is robust, scalable, fully automated, secure, and can support the growth of the business.
- Build Scalable Architectures: Leverage modern technologies to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native solutions.
- API Development and
Integration: Design and build secure RESTful and Graph QL APIs, ensuring seamless integration with core banking systems (e. g., Mambu) and external services like Open Banking platforms.
- Data Engineering and
Analytics: Work closely with data teams to define robust data pipelines and scalable cloud-based data platforms using tools like Apache Kafka, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- Monitoring and
- Performance
Tuning: Implement advanced monitoring and observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Code and System Optimisation: Proactively analyse and optimise existing systems for improved performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Core skill set for this position
- Strong experience building and scaling banking payment systems including either Faster Payments, Real-Time Payments, Card payments, BACS, mobile wallets and APIs is a must have.
- Experience leading upon architectural challenges, system scalability, and guidance of engineering teams is a must.
- A background in Java, C#, Python, or React development with experience providing hands‑on technical leadership is a must.
- Strong background in core banking systems/platforms (Mambu), cloud-native architectures, microservices and Dev Ops practices.
- Solid understanding of regulatory, risk and compliance requirements (e. g. PSD2, PCI DSS, GDPR).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and modern data platforms.
Benefits
£110,000 crica / 25% bonus / 28 days holiday / Holiday Purchase Scheme / Occasional travel / Health Insurance / 13% pension / plus much more.
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