Retail Platform Principal Engineer

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of
Retail Platform Principal Engineer
Business: WPS Technology
Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership across engineering projects, ensuring alignment with business goals, architecture principles and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Architect and design scalable, resilient, secure microservices and event‑driven systems to support high‑throughput financial services workloads.
• Lead adoption and governance of engineering standards, patterns and best practices (API design, domain‑driven design, CI/CD).
• Hands‑on development and code review in core platforms; set standards for software craftsmanship across Morden Tech stacks and cloud‑native services.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and engineering leads; run regular technical deep dives, architecture reviews and cross‑team workshops.
• Lead and facilitate blameless post‑mortems and structured root cause analysis (RCA), driving remediation plans and lessons learned into the development lifecycle.
• Own the Tech Risk Control "book of work": maintain backlog of control remediation tasks, coordinate with Risk/Compliance to define mitigations, track progress, and ensure audit readiness.
• Drive the integration of AI/ML capabilities into production systems with appropriate controls for governance, model risk, explainability and data privacy.
• Collaborate with product, security, ops and data teams to prioritise technical debt, reliability improvements and platform investments.
• Represent engineering in stakeholder forums, technical governance boards and external partner engagements.

What you will be doing

• Act as the technical owner for core platform domains, driving architecture, design and delivery across backend, data streaming and cloud infrastructure; focus deeply on 2–3 areas (e.g., Java/Spring, Kafka/Stream Processing, Cloud/Kubernetes).
• Lead targeted technical deep‑dives (2–3 per quarter) to resolve architectural trade‑offs, eliminate chronic pain points and