Join us as a Chief Information Office Principal Engineer within RBSI

• If you’re an experienced software engineer and you’re ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential
• You will serve as the advocate for best practices in software development and will be a promoter of modern software design patterns
• You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you technically lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues

As a CIO Principal Engineer, you'll empower and enable your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work, while sharing your knowledge of software design patterns and help developers assess the most suitable.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a cohesive strategy that aligns product, design and business priorities, and converting these into technological solutions
• Promoting, embedding and monitoring the standardisation of modern software development practices using enterprise approved tooling
• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent
• Ensuring a strong control framework including secure development practices

As a CIO Principal engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

By harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work. Ideally you’ll also be accustomed to working in Agile teams and will have experience of both cloud and on-premise deployment

You'll demonstrate:

• Expertise in high-level programming languages, Java is essential
• Practical experience of test automation
• Experience of working in Agile teams deployed on cloud and on premise
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication skills