IntaPeople
Jan 30, 2026
Contractor
We re recruiting on behalf of a financial technology client seeking a Principal Developer with strong architectural capability . This role sits within a senior Architecture function and will shape the technical direction of a complex, data driven product suite. This role directly influences the long term architecture, resilience, and scalability of a major financial technology platform. You ll play a key part in shaping future technical strategy and ensuring the platform remains robust and fit for growth. You ll act as a hands on technical authority, defining architecture standards, validating solution designs, and guiding engineering teams toward scalable, secure, cloud native systems. Key Focus: Architecture leadership + AWS expertise What You ll Do Define and govern architecture, development, and data standards. Design and review solution architectures, assessing risks and trade offs. Build PoCs and technical spikes to validate decisions and technologies. Provide architectural leadership across multiple products and teams. Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience. Lead data modelling and contribute to data architecture standards. Collaborate with senior architects, engineering leads, product teams, and external partners. Ensure designs meet SLAs, security, compliance, and operational requirements. What You ll Bring 8 10+ years in software engineering and/or solution architecture. Experience operating at Senior/Principal level in enterprise environments. Strong background in distributed, cloud native, and data intensive systems. Deep AWS experience (essential). Strong data modelling and data architecture skills. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST/event driven services; good knowledge of Angular/Node.js. Solid understanding of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern DevOps practices. Experience with observability, security by design, and high availability systems. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. This role directly influences the long term architecture, resilience, and scalability of a major financial technology platform. You ll play a key part in shaping future technical strategy and ensuring the platform remains robust and fit for growth. For immediate consideration, forward an up-to-date CV today to discuss circumstances confidentially.