via reed · 2 July 2026 ·4 days ago

Principal Engineer

Lorien
London Contract
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Principal Engineer

Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a strong Principal Engineer to join a high-profile transformation programme delivering a next-generation cloud-native customer onboarding platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining architecture, engineering excellence, and team mentorship to help deliver a business-critical platform.

While experience within Banking or Financial Services is preferred, we are also keen to speak with candidates from technology-driven organisations, start-ups, scale-ups, or other complex engineering environments with experience building modern cloud-native platforms

The ideal candidate for this position has strong expertise in Cloud-Native Microservice Development (Python/Java), Containerisation (Docker/ECS/EKS), and GitLab, CI/CD, Terraform.

This role is based in London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Experience

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering squads, driving engineering standards and best practices.

  • Design and develop cloud-native microservices using Python and/or Java.

  • Lead architecture and design for distributed, event-driven systems.

  • Champion modern DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud engineering practices.

  • Mentor and coach a team of approximately 10 junior engineers, conducting code reviews and supporting technical development.

  • Collaborate with architects, product owners, and senior stakeholders to ensure successful programme delivery.

  • Drive production readiness through observability, resilience, automated testing, and secure engineering practices.

Key Skills
  • Experience operating as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader.

  • Strong hands-on development experience with Python and/or Java.

  • Expertise in AWS, Docker, ECS/EKS (Kubernetes), and cloud-native microservices.

  • Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures.

  • Strong knowledge of GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and Continuous Delivery.

  • Proven ability to establish engineering standards, improve code quality, and influence technical direction.

  • Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering teams.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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