SAO Principal Engineer, Director

Lombard; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lombard in Bengaluru seeks a Principal Engineer to lead major components of the target architecture and roadmap, prioritising customer outcomes and high performance. This senior role collaborates with architects and cross-functional teams to shape scalable software solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive design choices, and coordinate multiple feature teams to deliver robust, secure systems using Java, React, AWS, and AI capabilities. This is a director-level position with significant impact.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience building DevOps and Agile workflows.
• Strong ability to translate product requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee end-to-end engineering and design solutions focusing on automation, resilience, security, and performance.
• Design and engineer complex software and tools enabling delivery of bank platforms and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical requirements.
• Influence enterprise architecture strategies and identify transformational opportunities.

Skills

Java

React JS

AWS

AI / LLMs

TDD / Automated Testing

DevOps / Agile

Job description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective. With your software development background, youll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap. Youll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills. We are offering this role at director level

What youll do

As a Principal Engineer, youll 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. Youll 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. Youll 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 youll need

Youll 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, youll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

Youll also need

• Proven proficiency in coding in Java, React JS
• Strong experience with public cloud, ideally with AWS
• Strong AI skills with LLMs, machine learning, or agentic systems is very highly desirable
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 07/08/2026.