Principal Engineer - Mainframe Developer

Purpose:

- Candidate needs to have 16+ years of commercial experience to be considered for this position.
- Responsible for the leadership of multiple engineering scrum teams rotating through domains to plan, deliver and support service features that deliver customer value and/or mature service capability. Responsible for improving performance of teams .
- Responsible for technical direction and identifying innovation solutions. To solve complex and/or large problem, translate vague problems into actionable items.
- Responsible for mentorship and coaching in industry best practices across engineering, agile and AI usage for the entire SDLC.
- Define the detailed technical roadmap in conjunction with the, Engineering Manager, Domain architect, Security architect, Tech and BA Leads .
- Triage new demand and ensures sufficient design guidance exists at high level for hand-off to the scrum tech lead for detailed design.
- Set the standard for design and Agile process and distribute development workload across multiple teams .
- Engage in hands-on development to balance workload or address significant complexity through technical spike: build, system-test including non-functional.
- Take part and make decisions on technical solutions .
- Present technical problems and/or solutions in business terms, pitch to the executives as well as various senior stakeholders within the company as required.

Essential capabilities:

- Experience with Mainframes modernization and major cloud technologies (mainly on Azure and AWS)
- Hands on experience and design of Mainframes based solutions supporting multiple asset teams at enterprise scale covering zOS Connect, ReST APIs, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM.
- Hands on experience with Dev Sec Ops
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal with stakeholders (product owners, engineers executives and other senior stakeholders)
- Experience as a technical lead providing mentorship to other technical staff
- Hands on coding experience with infrastructure as code, automation and applications

Experience:

- 18+ years Technology experience.
- 10+ years in application development roles.
- 8+ Years in Banking, specifically in Core Banking domain
- Technical Domain expertise.
- Expert software engineering (Mainframes Modernization + Cloud native).

Key Accountabilities:

Experience in solution design and architectural decision aligned with platform roadmap.

- Execute and drive hands-on technical guidance to uplift existing engineering squads to achieve industry best-practice standards
- Champion engineering excellence with automation-first mindset, and corresponding cultural transformation.
- Work with delivery teams to achieve success through the adoption of AI, engineering best practice processes and tooling.
- Shape, design, develop, support and implement Software Delivery in alignment with the roadmap.
- Maintain an understanding of ‘Best practice’ initiatives within own specialist area, and IT in general by continually seeking out relevant industry and technical knowledge. Improve on professional skills by completing necessary development activities.
- Work as an effective team member, supporting peers and recognising the contributions of others to ensure the achievement of team goals.
- Coaching and mentoring of team to uplift skills and knowledge to perform their role in a professional and ethical manner.
- Conform with all internal operating procedures relevant to the position.
- Awareness and contribution to NAB engineering frameworks for mini apps, microservices, AI context libraries and deliver hands-on workshops, bootcamps, and enablement sessions to uplift engineering maturity.