Principal Engineer Northampton

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Northampton

About the Job you are considering:

Purpose of the role is to drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions providing mentorship to engineering teams fostering cross functional collaboration and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high quality solutions aligned with business objectives

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Owning the engineering direction across Corporate Mobile and identity platforms
• You will lead engineering across native mobile applications for UK and international corporate banking clients alongside customer identity capabilities including authentication enrolment and digital signing
• Engineering mobile authentication and signing journeys for corporate banking customers You will design and evolve how corporate clients authenticate and approve actions on mobile ensuring solutions meet security regulatory and usability requirements across markets
• Leading architectural and engineering decision making at platform level You will make clear architectural and engineering decisions when trade-offs arise ensuring consistency scalability and long-term maintainability across mobile and identity platforms
• Working within a regulated corporate banking environment You will deliver solutions that meet regulatory and security expectations such as PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication GDPR and audit requirements across jurisdictions
• Providing hands on delivery leadership You will support delivery teams by unblocking technical issues guiding complex implementations and ensuring engineering work progresses predictably from requirements through to testing and release
• Leading a customer identity CIAM migration alongside an established Corporate Mobile platform
• You will guide the transition to modern identity capabilities while continuing to strengthen and evolve a high scale mobile platform used by corporate banking clients
• Setting engineering standards and ways of working You will define and uphold engineering principles patterns and quality standards across Corporate Mobile and identity shaping how teams build test and operate software
• Working closely with product security and senior stakeholders You will translate complex mobile and identity topics into clear options and recommendations aligning engineering priorities with business and client outcomes.

Accountabilities:

• Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence
  Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals anticipating future technology trends and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps
• Design and implementation of complex scalable and maintainable software solutions considering long-term viability and business objectives
• Mentoring and coaching to junior and midlevel engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization
• Collaboration with business partners product managers designers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development
• Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies methodologies and industry practices into the engineering process

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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