Principal Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer

In this key role, you'll design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective, on a platform which supports around five million customer views per day
You'll be accountable to the Platform Lead for the development and technical direction of the bank wide web platform hosted on Adobe Experience Manager
You'll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you'll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap.

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.

We'll look to you to lead 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 metricspublished to our investors.

You'll also engage with critical suppliers and provide direction and oversight for their technical delivery, ensuring the best outcomes for the business and our customers.

You'll also be:

Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on endtoend automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
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

We're looking for someone 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.

You'll have a strong background in Java framework,and good experience of Agile delivery on customer facing platforms, ideally in a digital environment.

You'll also need excellent knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager, ideally version 6.5 and good knowledge of Adobe Campaign, Target and Analytics.

Additionally, you'll have knowledge of the wider Adobe Experience Platform and a certification as an Adobe CertifiedMaster AEM Sites Architect would be beneficial.

You'll also need:

A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies in an enterprise environment
Demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Significant and demonstrable experience of testdriven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
A background in designing or implementing APIs
A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
Excellent communication and documentation skills