Principal Engineer, Identity Services

NatWest Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services provider in Northern Ireland is seeking a Principal Engineer for Identity Services. The role focuses on designing innovative solutions that enhance customer experiences, leads complex assignments, and requires a solid background in software engineering and team leadership. Candidates should have extensive experience with DevOps, Agile frameworks, and API design. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape technology strategies and achieve impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, software or database design.
• Expert understanding of market trends, technologies, and tools.
• Demonstrable experience in implementing programming best practices.
• Strong background in leading software development teams.
• Experience with automated testing and test-driven development.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer solutions focusing on customer experience.
• Define and oversee engineering and design solutions.
• Work with software engineers to design complex software.
• Influence strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels.

Skills

Software engineering

Database design

DevOps experience

Agile framework

Test-driven development

API design

Systems integration

Identity and Access Management

Tools

Java

Automated test frameworks

Code repositories

Bug tracking tools

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Identity Services

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer solutions with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
• With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
• You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
• This role is available as either full time, reduced hours or part time with minimum 28 working hours

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, Identity Services, 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.

You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

• 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
• Working within 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

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. Knowledge of Identity and Access Management concepts and Java development experience is desirable.

You’ll also need:

• 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
• A background in designing or implementing APIs
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• Significant experience of systems integration
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis