Principal Engineer

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Principal Engineer.

Business: Enterprise Technology L3

Job ID：43332

Principal responsibilities

• Act as the senior technology leader for the Foundations Data portfolio, accountable to the Head of Foundations Data and Head of Foundations Technology China for relevant technology decisions and outcomes. 
• Own the technical direction and provide technology governance across Foundations data portfolio, define target architecture, standards and reference implementations. 
• Drive stakeholder alignment and transparent delivery governance (prioritisation, dependencies, RAID, and executive updates) across Finance, Risk, CTO, CDAO and COO. 
• Own technology risk and control posture for the estate, ensuring operational and security risks are identified, assessed, and managed in line with Group and business objectives. 
• Ensure alignment to GCIO priorities and the Group Data strategy (Data Fabric), including adoption plans and measurable progress  
• Set engineering quality bars: coding standards, testing strategy, release governance, and operational readiness 
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements: security, resilience, performance, etc. 
• Embed a “production-first” operating model through automation, reduced manual/interactive production access, and strong run/operate disciplines (e.g., access controls, auditability, and resilience practices). 
• Drive measurable improvement in stability, incident reduction, and MTTR 
• Mentor senior engineers, coach teams on modern practices, and raise capability across the organisation. 
• Build communities of practice, influence through expertise rather than hierarchy. 
• Champion Agile practices and AI innovation.

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications

• A strong engineering background and the ability to operate strategically whilst also drilling down into the detail with the engineering teams.
• Hands-on passionate technologist – the role expects to be hands-on (c.60%) including critical-path engineering, prototyping, and code reviews.
• Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platform or data transition applications.
• Deep experience on Cloud-native platform engineering.
• Expert-level CI/CD for data and software, plus Infrastructure as Code and environment promotion controls.
• Strong observability: logging/metrics/tracing, data pipeline monitoring, SLOs/SLAs, incident management
• Strong understanding of security-by-design: encryption, key management, secrets handling, access control, data masking/tokenisation where needed.
• Ability to optimise query performance, storage formats, partitioning, indexing, and cost/performance trade-offs at scale.
• Experience with streaming and near-real-time patterns where Risk/Finance use cases require timeliness.
• Practical experience with distributed processing frameworks and workflow orchestration
• Evidence of engineering community contribution (internal or external) is a plus
• A good understanding of Financial Services with knowledge of the Finance and Financial Risk domains
• Experience of designing and running highly available systems at scale (50+ microservices) (ex. Trading Systems, Banking apps & services)
• Ability to follow the industry shifts and offerings across the full-stack including Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud, microservices, data lakes, storage and networking in Cloud environments. 
• Ability to provide technical and conceptual thought leadership, successfully navigate areas of ambiguity and stakeholder disagreement to achieve required outcomes.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills across all communities, with experience of successfully influencing senior stakeholders, negotiating effectively, and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations

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