Principal Developer / Architect
We’re recruiting on behalf of a financial‑technology client seeking a Principal Developer with strong architectural capability. This role sits within a senior Architecture function and will shape the technical direction of a complex, data‑driven product suite.
This role directly influences the long‑term architecture, resilience, and scalability of a major financial‑technology platform. You’ll play a key part in shaping future technical strategy and ensuring the platform remains robust and fit for growth.
You’ll act as a hands‑on technical authority, defining architecture standards, validating solution designs, and guiding engineering teams toward scalable, secure, cloud‑native systems.
Key Focus: Architecture leadership + AWS expertise
What You’ll Do
- Define and govern architecture, development, and data standards.
- Design and review solution architectures, assessing risks and trade‑offs.
- Build PoCs and technical spikes to validate decisions and technologies.
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple products and teams.
- Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience.
- Lead data modelling and contribute to data architecture standards.
- Collaborate with senior architects, engineering leads, product teams, and external partners.
- Ensure designs meet SLAs, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
What You’ll Bring
- 8–10+ years in software engineering and/or solution architecture.
- Experience operating at Senior/Principal level in enterprise environments.
- Strong background in distributed, cloud‑native, and data‑intensive systems.
- Deep AWS experience (essential).
- Strong data modelling and data architecture skills.
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST/event‑driven services; good knowledge of Angular/Node.js.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with observability, security‑by‑design, and high‑availability systems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
This role directly influences the long‑term architecture, resilience, and scalability of a major financial‑technology platform. You’ll play a key part in shaping future technical strategy and ensuring the platform remains robust and fit for growth.
For immediate consideration, forward an up-to-date CV today to discuss circumstances confidentially.