Principal Engineer — Platform Architecture & Delivery

The London Metal Exchange Limited; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 120 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The London Metal Exchange Limited is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of complex software platforms. This senior individual contributor role provides hands-on engineering leadership without direct people management responsibility.

Responsibilities include mentoring, influencing engineering standards, and delivering secure, scalable systems while improving developer productivity and implementing best practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience in Java, building and operating distributed systems.
• Deep experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures (Kafka) and integration patterns.
• Define and influence engineering strategy, architecture standards, and technical roadmaps.
• Design and build secure, cloud-native applications using modern engineering practices (Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of secure software development, including authentication, authorisation, encryption, and secure-by-design principles.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and scalable production environments.
• Practical DevOps expertise across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, conduct reviews, and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, influencing both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsabilités

• Provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, and influence strategic technology direction across the organisation.
• Support complex delivery initiatives and engage with senior stakeholders and external parties as required.
• Act as a subject matter expert, guiding architecture, security, reliability, and platform strategy across multiple domains.

Connaissances

Java programming

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven architectures

Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications

Secure software development

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Automated testing

Deployment automation

Technical leadership

Formation

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM discipline

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Helm

Prometheus

Description du poste

The London Metal Exchange Limited is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of complex software platforms. This senior individual contributor role provides hands-on engineering leadership without direct people management responsibility.

Responsibilities include mentoring, influencing engineering standards, and delivering secure, scalable systems while improving developer productivity and implementing best practices across teams.