Payments Data Principal Engineer, Director

Join us as a Payments Data Principal Engineer

• As a key member of our Payments Technology senior leadership team, you’ll oversee the safe and high-quality delivery of changes across diverse payment technology environments, with a strong emphasis on data engineering and Payments data products
• Your focus will extend to the delivery of changes from a people, process, and technology perspective, with the aim of embedding a new customer and product led delivery model that promotes engineering excellence, including robust data architecture and modelling practices
• This role offers you the opportunity to enhance your career profile and forge long-lasting relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including senior management, through effective data-driven decision-making
• We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll be accountable for the efficiency, stability, enhancement, responsiveness, performance, security, support, life-cycling and maintenance of Payments Technology’s systems, applications, utilities, tools, and services with a particular focus on the integrity and usability of data assets. Day-to-day, you’ll govern the implementation and adherence to standards, principles, and policies, leading various disciplines. You’ll will collaborate closely with your peers to ensure the utilisation of optimal technical solutions within Payments and across the bank, particularly in relation to data management and analytics.

With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, you’ll coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software, scripts and tools that are customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, you’ll create efficiency where it doesn’t already exist by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
• Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work
• Working with software engineers to prototype innovative ideas, and engaging with our architects to validate and leverage them across the bank
• Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools
• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent

The skills you'll need

You’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.

You'll demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
• Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication skills