Senior Principal Engineer

Job description

10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position.

• Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.

• Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning

. • Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design

. • Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code.

• Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.

• Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions.

• Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.

• Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Sheffield

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

01-03-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English