Principle Engineer

Role overview

Work arrangement

• The role is hybrid, with work split between home and an office or customer location.
• The description specifies at least two office days per week in London or Bristol.
• Normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Contract

• The position is full time and permanent.

Responsibilities

• Design, produce, test, and implement software across its lifecycle.
• Engineer and maintain secure, robust, high-performance customer solutions.
• Build complex software, scripts, and tools and collaborate with engineers, architects, and business analysts.
• Work through requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Own workstreams, lead delivery, coordinate contributors, mentor engineers, and provide post-go-live support.
• Perform hands-on Avaloq customisation and development.

Required experience and skills

• Strong software engineering, software design, and architecture background.
• Extensive hands-on Avaloq scripting and parameterisation experience, including Report Writer, Workflows, Order Validations, Migration Scripts, and Interface Definitions.
• Deep Avaloq STEX and securities trade lifecycle experience in a Core Banking or Wealth Management environment.
• Expertise in order lifecycle, business-unit setup, and order piping, including messaging, pooling, and placement.
• Experience with order generation through execution, settlement, and reconciliation; awareness of MiFID II, EMIR reporting, and best execution.
• Track record owning workstreams, leading delivery, coordinating project contributors, mentoring, and supporting go-live.

Desirable experience

• Warehousing or bulk-rebalance trading, OMGEO, CTM settlement matching and T+1, FIX connectivity, corporate actions, FX, fund dealing, and the Avaloq integration spine are desirable.

Pay and benefits

• The source states that base pay is taken home every month, without stating a salary amount.
• The source describes monthly pension and benefit funding, 30 days of annual leave, and the option to purchase additional leave.