[ref. d72161704] Chief Information Office Principal Engineer

• If you’re an experienced software engineer and you’re ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential
• You’ll harness your extensive experience and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexity
• You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you technically lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues

What you'll do

As a CIO Principal Engineer, you'll empower and enable your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work, while sharing your knowledge of software design patterns and help developers assess the most suitable

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
• Promoting, embedding and monitoring the standardisation of modern software development practices using enterprise approved tooling
• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent
• Ensuring a strong control framework including secure development practices

The skills you'll need

As a CIO Principal engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

Ideally you’ll be accustomed to working in Agile teams and will have experience of both cloud and on-premise deployment

You'll demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
• Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication skills