Summary: The Principle Engineer role is a 6-month contract position within a leading financial services client in the UK, focusing on leading the engineering community and developing engineering standards. The position involves mentoring, promoting best practices, and ensuring quality assurance in engineering deliverables. The role also emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement within the engineering teams. This position is classified as inside IR35 due to the use of an umbrella company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing engineering standards, processes and guidelines for consistency.
• Promote best practice across the teams.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Research and innovation - emerging technologies, trends.
• Upskill engineers through structured development, certifications etc.
• Mentoring and coaching across the engineering community.
• Providing technical advice for engineering challenges.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Technical reviews - conduct design and code reviews, ensuring compliance with established standards.
• Collaboration across engineers.
• Continuous improvement.
• Tooling to streamline and support delivery.
• Quality assurance and risk management of engineering deliverables.
• Shaping career pathways.

Key Skills:

• Technology delivery background.
• Experience of business delivery and how technology delivery is taken forward from business design and into requirements.
• Communication skills with ability to influence and support business direction and decisions.
• Understanding of delivery requirements through NatWest, including governance and standards to be followed.
• Planning and risk management experience.
• Ability to understand, engage and work with all team capability areas - particularly with architects.
• Java, React, SQL, AWS cloud, Kafka, microservice, headless services & architecture experience.
• Innovation outlook.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other