Group Overview
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role Overview
The Principal Engineer (PE) will provide technical leadership to the development teams and nurture a culture of continual learning. The Principal Engineer will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their teams.
The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done.
Role Responsibilities
1. Act as a primary technical leader and developer on a team
2. Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects
3. Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions in both existing and greenfield projects
4. Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries
5. Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process
6. Communicate complex technical designs and issues with technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary
7. Support team management in planning and prioritisation of deliveries
8. Participate in team ceremonies such as retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice
9. Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels
10. Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders
Experience / Competences
Essential
1. 5+ years relevant industry experience
2. Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach
3. Experience of hands on technical leadership developing complex systems
4. Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role
5. Current in-depth knowledge of Java and Spring Boot Framework
Desired
1. Strong experience in database, ORM and related technologies – Hibernate, JPA, Postgres, SQL
2. Experience in frontend development in Javascript, Typescript or React
3. Experience of Python as a general purpose scripting language
4. Experience in AWS stack and related technologies –EKS, SQS/SNS, Aurora, Amazon CDK, Helm
Location
UK - City Quays - Belfast
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