Natwest Recruitment – Principal Engineer In Stockport

Overview

Position Title: Principal Engineer

Company: NatWest Group

Location: Stockport, UK

Job Description

As a Principal Engineer, 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Leading 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
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

Requirements:

• Experience in Terraform, building infrastructures, managing alerts and integrating with peripheral services such as GitHub, TeamCity, Artifactory, Active Directory and PING
• The ability to create meaningful stories containing technical tasks to deliver requirements
• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• 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, wikis and designing or implementing APIs