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Principal Engineer, Economic Crime Services

City of Edinburgh
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Join us as a Principal Engineer, Economic Crime Services

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software to detect and prevent Economic Crime with customer experience as the primary objective.

With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap.

You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills.

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer in Economic Crime, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, across multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

  • Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
  • Working across platform and feature teams along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
  • Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
  • Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

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The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around security, scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

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You’ll also need:

  • A strong background in full stack development including Java, JavaScript or Python, with experience, leading software development teams, and introducing and executing technical delivery
  • Experience building name screening or transaction filtering solutions for Financial Crime function
  • Expert knowledge of designing and engineering modern applications using API’s, containers, public cloud platforms, event streaming technologies, and SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
  • The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
  • A commitment to engineering excellence with experience building and enabling high performing engineering teams through best practises, automation, tooling and AI

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

27/08/2026

Ways of Working

Hybrid

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Skills

Software engineering
System architecture
DevOps
Agile
Java
JavaScript
Python
Financial crime
API design
Cloud platforms
Event streaming
SQL
NoSQL
Test-driven development
Automation
Leadership

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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