Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.
EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.
Role Summary
EQ Retirement Solutions are looking for a Principal Framework Engineer, a senior technical role at the heart of the Engineering team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Will thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward.
Core Duties/Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following, but are not limited to:
* Collaborates with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective solution designs.
* Creates detailed technical specifications, system diagrams, and process flows.
* Ensures designs align with architecture principles and company standards.
* Works closely with business analysts, product managers, and engineers to ensure solutions meet business needs.
* Acts as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
* Evaluates appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms.
* Provides guidance and mentorship to engineering and configuration teams during solution implementation.
* Identifies risks and proposes mitigation strategies during the design phase.
* Proactively recommend improvements to systems and processes.
* Ensures solutions meet quality, performance, and security standards.
* Maintains up-to-date documentation for designed solutions.
* Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Operating Model aligned to your Home
* Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
* Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by fostering news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
* Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology.
* Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
* Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
* Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
The ideal candidate will have the below skills, capabilities and attributes:
* Experience in engineering activities in a Product SaaS organisation, including scrum agile methodologies, efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness, documentation / technical writing, process, data and system engineering, analytical skills in business, process, data and system, lifecycle management and complex problem solving
* Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products
* Experience in Financial Services preferred
* Experience in Pensions, Insurance and Life and Pensions (preferred)
* Analysis and Design of requirements for delivery of scalable, maintainable, secure systems
* Software development or configuration background
* Awareness of: Database Design, Responsive web design, Data access and persistence, Web accessibility standards, Web security principles, Application architecture, Source code control, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments and general Enterprise Architecture
* Experience in stakeholder engagement and presentation of complex technical designs
* Enterprise applications and relevant configuration tools
What We Offer
* Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
* All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
* Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
* Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
* Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
* Time Off - Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
* Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks