Principal 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 in the Engineering Platforms team, you’ll be delivering modern software development tools chain for engineers across the bank, protecting them from the complexities of developing and delivering applications. 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 Driving reliability, automation, and scalability across our developer platforms, including GitLab, Artifactory and Ansible Automation Platform, with a user base of over 25,000 colleagues Taking on a key role in building a world-class developer experience by ensuring our systems are robust, efficient, and easy to use 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 Working closely with platform engineering teams, platform architects, and partners such as GitLab, Red Hat to shape our CI/CD strategy, observability stack, and automation frameworks Providing expertise in Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD/Flux, and cloud-native technologies to enhance our platform’s reliability and performance The skills you'll need You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of 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 practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. You’ll also need: A strong background in leading software development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development, automated test frameworks, monitoring, observability, and automation practices A background in designing or implementing APIs and highly available, resilient services The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product, business, operational and reliability requirements into technical solutions A background working with code repositories, bug tracking tools, wikis and observability platforms Hours 35 Job Posting Closing Date: 10/08/2026 Ways of Working:Remote First