Principal Engineer- Payments

Barclays

Canary Wharf, , UK
Payments platform architecture
Technical leadership and mentorship
Engineering standards enforcement
The role involves owning and shaping the end-to-end technical architecture of the Payments Platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance

Job Summary

  • The role involves owning and shaping the end-to-end technical architecture of the Payments Platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
  • The Principal Engineer will lead technical decisions across multi-rail payments and platform capabilities, embedding security and operational resilience by design.
  • This position requires providing technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers and acting as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders.

Matching Summary

The role involves owning and shaping the end-to-end technical architecture of the Payments Platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payments platform architecture
  • Technical leadership and mentorship
  • Engineering standards enforcement
  • Multi-rail payments expertise
  • Risk and security collaboration
  • Technical debt reduction
  • Cross-functional team collaboration

Nice-to-have

  • Innovation culture fostering
  • Performance culture embedding
  • Strategic project management
  • Stakeholder negotiation skills
  • Thought leadership
  • Compliance and regulatory focus
  • Advanced analytical skills

Key Requirements

  • Experience leading engineering teams
  • Expertise in payments technology
  • Knowledge of regulatory compliance
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Ability to manage complex strategic projects
  • Proven mentorship skills

Work Rights

Not specified

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