Principal Developer Lead – FinTech, Hybrid (Glasgow)

Trust in SODA; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26-day annual leave

Birthday day off

Pension scheme with salary exchange

Private healthcare

Group Life Insurance

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

Trust in SODA in Glasgow is seeking a Principal Developer for a contract position, hybrid working. The role requires leading a small development team, delivering core financial management solutions, and overseeing design reviews and defect management. Start date ASAP with a salary of £67k plus bonus scheme.

The candidate should have strong SQL skills, experience in fintech or finance, and proven line management capabilities to drive best practices and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Must have recruitment experience.
• Must have SME experience.
• Must have software experience.
• Must have people management experience.
• Must have financial experience.

Responsibilities

• Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals.
• Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake.
• Drive and develop best practices.
• Line management
• Implementing & Testing the clients’ core financial management solution.
• Review and sign off solution designs.
• Direct project build team and oversee build effort.
• Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase.
• Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues.
• Lead peer reviews.

Skills

Recruitment experience

SME experience

Software experience

People management

Financial experience

Tools

MS SQL

SSRS / Power BI

Low-code configuration tools

Data querying and manipulation

SQL performance tuning

Job description

Trust in SODA in Glasgow is seeking a Principal Developer for a contract position, hybrid working. The role requires leading a small development team, delivering core financial management solutions, and overseeing design reviews and defect management. Start date ASAP with a salary of £67k plus bonus scheme.

The candidate should have strong SQL skills, experience in fintech or finance, and proven line management capabilities to drive best practices and on-time delivery.