Banking Principal Engineer & Architect

Overview

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Open Banking Payments

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective. You ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank s overall software engineering capability. You ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents.

• As a Principal Engineer, Open Banking Payments, 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 working with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures. We ll also look to you to design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.
• 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
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of Dev Ops techniques

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a Dev Ops and Agile framework.
• Expert understanding of the latest market trends within the banking payments area. Significant experience with Java, and demonstrable experience implementing programming best practices around scalability, automation, virtualization, optimisation, availability and performance.
• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• A background in designing and implementing Open Banking Payments APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours:

35

Job Posting Closing Date: 21/07/2026

Ways of Working:
Hybrid