Principal Engineer - Full Stack Java
Broadridge1 day ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering strategy for the International Processing Engine and associated integrations.
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend services, frontend components, RESTful APIs, and enterprise integrations.
- Provide principal-level technical leadership across multiple workstreams and govern complex architectural, integration, data, resilience, scalability, security, and operational decisions.
- Lead delivery of critical platform capabilities, strategic enhancements, production fixes, remediation initiatives, and complex cross-system changes.
- Establish and champion engineering standards for architecture, coding, code reviews, automated testing, documentation, security, observability, release readiness, and operational excellence.
- Provide technical oversight for solution designs, code, test strategies, and deployment approaches.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive corrective actions that improve platform resilience and reliability.
- Drive adoption of containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and modern DevOps practices.
- Mentor and coach Technical Leads, Senior Engineers, and development teams.
- Provide technical leadership for settlement workflows and securities trade lifecycle solutions covering Debt, Equity, and Financing Transactions.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, platform architecture, automation, quality, performance, security, operational support, and AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Collaborate with product, delivery, quality assurance, architecture, operations, clients, and other stakeholders on roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software development experience.
- Substantial hands-on experience with Core Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
- Experience as a Principal Engineer, Solution Architect, Lead Architect, or senior technical leader responsible for technical strategy, platform architecture, engineering governance, and complex program delivery.
- Strong Java and Spring expertise designing and delivering large-scale service-oriented or microservices-based backend systems.
- Strong SQL skills and extensive experience with large relational databases, including MS SQL Server and Sybase.
- JavaScript experience and the ability to provide technical direction for frontend components and full-stack delivery.
- Python experience is preferred.
- Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerized application design, deployment, configuration, scalability, resilience, and operational support.
- Strong full-stack engineering capability across frontend, backend, API, data, and integration layers.
- Extensive experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, distributed services, and enterprise applications.
- Experience designing and supporting high-volume, real-time, or time-sensitive systems with strong performance, resilience, availability, and operational reliability.
- Experience defining technical architectures, making complex design decisions, conducting architecture and code reviews, improving delivery practices, and resolving production issues.
- Experience with automated testing, quality engineering, CI/CD, deployment automation, and software development lifecycle quality practices.
- Experience with Git, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- Preferred knowledge of securities trade lifecycle processes, settlements, trade confirmations, reporting, books and records, collateral management, and clearance/settlement workflows.
- Preferred experience with SAFe Agile delivery environments, enterprise architecture, platform roadmaps, cloud-native engineering, modernization strategies, regulated client environments, and cross-team technical transformation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with in-person collaboration as needed.
- Collaborative, engaging, and inclusive workplace focused on employee authenticity, safety, and belonging.
- Broadridge may use AI-based tools during recruiting, with human review included in employment decisions.
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About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions builds software and managed services that power investor communications, proxy voting, securities processing, and wealth/asset management for banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and public companies. Its offerings span data and analytics, governance, and communications platforms sold as SaaS and outsourced operations. Public on the NYSE (BR) and part of the S&P 500, Broadridge was spun off from ADP in 2007 and is headquartered in New York City.