Sanderson
Principal Engineer
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VP Engineering / Principal Engineer (Level 2 Head of Engineering)
Hybrid
London
We are seeking an exceptional VP Engineering / Principal Engineer to act as the senior technical authority across a large-scale lending and customer-facing technology portfolio. Reporting into a senior technology leader, this individual will drive engineering excellence, modern architecture, AI adoption and technology transformation across a complex estate comprising approximately 110 people spanning both the UK and India.
This is not a traditional engineering management role. We are looking for a highly credible engineering leader who can assess the health of the technology estate, define target-state architecture, improve engineering capability and accelerate delivery across multiple product and platform teams.
Key Priorities
- Driving modern engineering practices including trunk-based development, CI/CD, automated deployment, blue-green releases, feature flags, TDD, BDD, pair programming and engineering ownership throughout the software lifecycle.
- Leading the adoption of AI across engineering, both through AI-assisted software development and the delivery of AI-enabled products into production.
- Overseeing strategic technology initiatives including legacy platform exits, cloud-native transformation, Salesforce migrations, AWS-based platforms and the evolution towards a modern microservices architecture.
- Being responsible for technology health assessments, code quality, engineering standards, architecture direction and engineering capability reviews across the wider organisation.
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Technology Environment
- React, Angular
- Java Microservices
- Python
- Golang / AWS Lambda
- Temporal AI Orchestration
- AWS
- RHEL Linux
- Oracle, Aurora, MongoDB, AWS RDS
- Salesforce
- Databricks, Snowflake, PySpark
- Hadoop, Teradata and Ab Initio (decommissioning)
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Ideal Background
- Director, VP Engineering, Principal Engineer or Distinguished Engineer level
- Banking, Financial Services or Big Tech background
- Strong coding and architecture credentials
- Experience leading engineering transformation at scale
- Proven AI, cloud and microservices expertise
- Deep understanding of modern software delivery practices
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
This is a high-impact opportunity for a hands-on engineering leader to shape technology strategy, elevate engineering capability and drive the future architecture of a large-scale digital and lending platform.
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