THE ROLE

Reporting to the Delivery Director, the Principal Software Engineer is the foremost technical expert in the Division. You will take responsibility for key technical choices and decisions, alignment with technical standards and adherence to Group policy. As the Principal Software Engineer you will be the go-to person for technical queries and advice within the Division.

You will have a strong understanding of the architecture style, concepts and goals of the Group Architecture and Engineering Standards as well as a good grasp of the Group’s Security Principles. You will also have a broad understanding of other divisions’ software and services, and are responsible for ensuring technical alignment of cross-divisional technical implementation.

This is a functional leadership role and does not have Line Management responsibilities, however, you will provide technical mentoring to senior engineers within the division to help them develop their skills.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

• You will own the end to end architecture of the division, ensuring key technical decisions are sound and aligned with the vision
• You will mentor and coach other Software Engineers on the team
• You will champion a culture of collaboration via code reviews, architecture reviews, code katas, etc.
• You will play a leading role in finding solutions to complex technical problems
• You will work closely with the App Sec team to promote and provide guidance and options for security of the software
• You will keep engineering diagrams up-to-date to illustrate how the services in your area of responsibility interact; including external vendors and customer integrations.
• You will own the Technical Roadmap that illustrates the target architecture or solution you are working towards, and highlights the areas and interactions that are in progress or not yet complete.
• You will be accountable for reporting of compliance with relevant technical standards e.g. UI micro component standards.

WHAT SKILLS DO YOU HAVE?

• You will have expert-level knowledge of at least one object-oriented programming language (C#, Java, JS, Kotlin, Python, PHP, Golang, C++)
• You will have a strong understanding of the principles of good software design. Familiarity with core concepts such as information hiding, abstraction, module design, cohesion and coupling.
• You will have broad software architecture skills and detailed knowledge of architectural patterns and applying them to highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, observable microservices and systems.
• You will have detailed knowledge of testing methodology and designing high-quality testing suites resilient to changes in implementation.
• You will have experience of continuous Integration, pipeline design, containerized workloads and infrastructure as code.
• You will have experience in messaging and asynchronous communication technologies

 IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS FOR YOU TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Operation of Kubernetes Clusters
• Building cloud native applications
• Mathematical Aptitude, particularly statistics
• Data Engineering skills
• Front-end web technologies
• Domain Driven Design