Principal Engineer, Identity Services

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in the United Kingdom is looking for a Principal Engineer for Identity Services. This role involves designing engineering solutions with a focus on customer experience, leading complex software development assignments, and working with architecture teams. Ideal candidates should have substantial experience in software engineering, Agile frameworks, and familiarity with Java. Opportunity for full-time or part-time roles is available.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and design.
• Expert understanding of latest market trends and tools.
• Demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer innovative solutions that enhance customer outcomes.
• Lead complex software projects and coordinate multiple teams.
• Develop architecture models to meet business and technical requirements.

Skills

Software engineering

Agile frameworks

DevOps practices

Test-driven development

API design

Systems integration

Tools

Java

Automated test frameworks

Code repositories

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 workinghours

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