Principal Engineer, GenAI, Director

Responsibilities

• As a Principal Engineer, 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, coordinating 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 within a platform or feature team 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
• 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.
• You'll also need:
• A strong background at least 15 years in Architect and train custom SLMs (1B-15B parameters)
• Significant and demonstrable experience in b uilding scalable GPU‑based training pipelines on Azure ML
• A background in c urating high‑quality datasets and synthetic data workflows
• The ability to i mplement evaluation, safety testing, quantisation, and optimisation
• Set engineering standards and mentor junior engineers
• Hours
• 45
• Job Posting Closing Date:
• 03/07/2026

Additional Information

Join us as a Principal Engineer This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user 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 We're offering this role at director level

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