Principal Software Engineer (Belfast) - Financial Services Technology

Principal Software Engineer - Financial Services Technology

Are you a hands on engineering leader with a passion for building innovative, business critical software? Do you have the technical expertise and leadership skills to deliver scalable, high quality solutions in financial services technology? If so, this opportunity could be your next career defining move.

Our client, a leading global financial services institution, is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join their Technology division. You'll lead a high performing engineering team responsible for delivering solutions that power both internal broking platforms and external customer facing systems. Operating within an Agile environment, you will collaborate across regions, shape engineering standards, and drive continuous improvement-ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to the organisation's long term technology strategy.

• Lead and mentor a cross functional engineering team, delivering innovative Front Office solutions for Rates & FX business lines.
• Partner with principal engineers across global regions to set and implement standards for engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Enterprise Architecture to ensure solutions align with the organisation's IT vision and strategy.
• Take ownership of solution design, development, and delivery, ensuring software meets business requirements, adheres to best practices, and is delivered on time.
• Drive continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies and methodologies, ensuring the best approach for each initiative.
• Ensure effective communication of progress, raising risks or impediments early to minimise delivery impact.
• Foster a culture of quality through automation, robust testing frameworks, and strong development practices.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years' experience in software engineering roles, ideally within Financial Services Technology.
• Proven track record of building and leading high performance, cross functional teams in an Agile environment.
• Strong expertise in .NET Framework and .NET Core (C#).
• Experience designing and developing distributed, event driven, cloud native systems.
• Proficiency in API design and development (REST, GraphQL).
• Solid background in relational database design and optimisation (MSSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Hands on experience deploying and managing assets in AWS or Azure.
• Strong understanding of the full SDLC, from design to release and post implementation support.
• Ability to balance pragmatism and innovation, using POCs to validate approaches and drive solutions forward.
• Exceptional problem solving ability with a structured, detail oriented mindset.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience influencing and collaborating at all levels.
• Proven experience building automated testing solutions for complex systems.

Preferred:

• Proficiency in WPF application development.
• Experience working with financial markets, trading platforms, or FIX protocol.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services.
• Exposure to Java, JavaScript, or React.
• Familiarity with microservices, serverless architecture, and modern development practices (TDD, BDD).

Vantage Point Global is fully committed to being an Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Things you need to know:

• To apply, you'll need to provide us with a CV and answer a few initial questions.

• We'd like to make you aware that if you have not heard back from us within three weeks of the date of application that we will not be progressing your application.