Principal Engineer

A tremendous opportunity awaits a Financial Crime Principal level Engineer to collaborate a highly respected team. You will join a high impact engineering group responsible for building and evolving the bank's risk and fraud detection engines. As the organisation scales rapidly, this team is central to protecting customers, strengthening digital trust, and enabling safe growth across payments, digital channels and lending.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build and optimisation of next generation risk engines
• Drive end to end engineering ownership across complex, distributed systems
• Partner with digital and payments teams to integrate risk capabilities seamlessly
• Mentor engineers, uplift engineering standards and guide architectural direction
• Collaborate with platform/DevOps engineers to ensure resilience, observability and scalability
• Work with architects (outside the squad) to align on patterns and long term platform strategy

What You Bring

• Deep experience with risk engines - scoring, orchestration, integration
• Strong background in payments or digital banking, with the ability to speak the language of both
• Advanced engineering capability in Java (primary stack); Python experience welcome for data focused work
• Systems thinking mindset and a track record of owning outcomes end to end
• Ability to operate across squads without silos, influencing technical direction
• Curiosity and adaptability, fraud/FinCrime domain knowledge can be learned on the job