Principal Enginner

Role Title: BUK Principal Engineer - Digital
Location: Radbroke
What will you be doing

About Barclays UK COO

Our core role is to enable the delivery of a world-class Technology landscape underpinned by strong controls and a commercial mind-set. The BUK Digital Organisation exists to ensure that Barclays Retail Customers experence the best digital banking, delivered with the right fit-for-purpose technology, engineered to the appropriate standards through efficient and effective process, and via an organisation fit from a culture and skills perspective. BUK Digital also ensures we advance group level frameworks in conjunction with CTO partners to ensuring consistent digital experiences across the Barclays group.

About BUK Technology
Barclays UK Technology drives the right customer outcomes and protects our customers and the integrity of financial services markets through high quality, critical services. Our digital footprint is founded on innovation and excellence, and this role is key in continuing and building upon that heritage.

About Digital Feature Delivery
Principal Engineers are widely regarded as leading applied experts in their domains, utilizing deep technical expertise to realise material impact at a domain, platform or business unit level. The Principal Engineer is a key contributor role in Barclays, creating and maintaining trusted advisor relationships with business partners and engineering teams to drive successful engineering outcomes. The PE participates in strategic technical discussions with partners and helps shape their technical agenda. In addition, you will lead engineering efforts and collaborate internally across Barclays’ technical experts to solve complex problems and deliver solutions that implement the firm's business and technology strategy.

Overall purpose of role
The Principal Engineering role within Digital Engineering for BUK is a deep hands-on expert across all aspects of delivering a world class digital banking experience for our retail banking customers. The role is pivotal within the leadership of engineering excellence across many teams and technology stacks and will have broad impact on BUK business areas through various engagements and deliverables. Working with the CIO of the Digital Channels and other Managing Directors for platform and feature engineering, the role will drive the technical improvements in practices, solutions, tooling and environments. In addition, they will develop products, solutions, frameworks, designs and standards, and engage heavily in ensuring continuous improvement of our digital estate. Principal Engineers are also expected to develop and lead a community with their peers, engage in education across our general engineering population, and from time to time take active leadership across engineering teams where improvement is needed.

What we’re looking for
- Key Accountabilities
- Lead specific engineering outcomes and be accountable for building upon the digital platform foundations to meet business demand
- Own and deliver business outcomes as defined in partnership with product owners. Accountable for backlog quality and achieving definition of ready and done for prioritised work items
- Perform deep, CIO level engagement to identify and curate innovation and improvement opportunities for complex, high scale system deliveries
- Hire and Develop others: Drive organisational shape to achieve Employee Value Proposition outcomes
- Be a figure head for organisational excellence, execution discipline and effectively carrying the brand of Digital Delivery as an ambassador

Skills that will help you in your role
- Extensive experience of working within financial services across a number of technology roles
- Extensive experience in designing, delivering and fixing large scale software systems
- Expert track record of working collaboratively and developing strong, productive internal and external relationships across a matrixed global organisation
- Application of leading edge leadership and development practices
- Highly organised, diligent and skilled in managing complex projects (strategic and tactical)