Technical Principal(BFSI Domain)

Thoughtworks is looking for a Principal Engineer/Consultant, with expertise and experience in building and delivering banking and financial services technology, to join the APAC BFSI (Banking and Financial Services Industry) vertical in Australia.

They will be a hands-on technology leader possessing the skills to influence clients’ technology and business executives while driving Thoughtworks teams to deliver business success through impactful execution of our engagements with our clients. This will require them to build and socialise guiding principles, sensible defaults and best practices for developing financial technology for our clients using a combination of bespoke and off-the-shelf products and SaaS systems. They will evangelise these practices and principles to the Thoughtworks development teams working on BFSI engagements, so they can deliver exceptional outcomes to our clients.

As consultants, we work with our clients to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of an insurance giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will learn to use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

What happens when you have fascinating clients with challenging problems on Core Banking on one side, a ready-to-go cross functional team of passionate software developers and experienced business analysts on the other? That’s where a Technical Architect comes in, connecting future focused solutions with the outcomes these solutions should deliver using strong architectural foundations for secure, resilient, functional and compliant technology. You will work with clients across a variety of sectors and ensure the business- critical software solutions we develop deliver real business value every time

Job responsibilities

• Leading and partnering with Tech Principals and Tech Leads helping them define product and technology vision for clients.
• Facilitating and leading internal and external workshops on financial systems and composable architectures in domains such as core banking, payments, insurance etc.
• Advising tier 1 clients and prospective clients on delivering technology solutions using the preferred architectural guiding principles and sensible defaults to optimise business outcomes Working with multiple business stakeholders to ensure a coherent architectural story is being told from pre-sales through to implementation in engineering.
• Present target architectures, technology solutions, guiding principles and best practice to senior client stakeholders within pre-sales engagements.
• Capturing product features needed to allow clients to realise value and feedback into the Thoughtworks BFSI vertical, Service Lines and Digital Engineering Centers, engaging with internal stakeholders and championing those features within the organisation.
• Collaborating with teammates on the analysis and design of complex corporate and business banking applications using the latest technologies.
• Unearthing the root cause(s) of a client’s pain points, validating a business opportunity or problem and partnering to deliver a solution.
• Prioritizing, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders, and resolving conflicts as they arise.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• You have a deep understanding of at least one of these financial services domains: retail/core banking, payments, wealth management, insurance, and have been associated with implementing modern scalable and flexible banking solutions using both bespoke and off-the-shelf systems.
• You understand end-to-end journeys of different banking products such as Loans, Deposits, Insurance etc.
• Knowledge of customisations around Core Banking products and familiarity with new-age combo products and setting up the same in new core banking solutions is desired.
• You have handled modernisation and migration in large scale financial technology, preferably retail and core banking.
• Strong technical background, ideally experienced in more than one programming paradigms – familiarity with Python will be a bonus.
• Familiar with new and emerging technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Istio , PostgreSQL databases.
• Strong knowledge of established patterns in architecture, such as resilience patterns/anti-patterns, event driven architecture, and process orchestration.
• Experience in security and system performance management functions.
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to position, defend and communicate effectively a technical position to a room of skilled client architects.

Professional Skills

• Strong knowledge of microservices and serverless along with interaction styles such as synchronous and asynchronous communication, data streaming and API technologies and lifecycle management.
• Ability to understand various levels of consistency such as linearizability vs serializability.
• Well versed with Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery methodologies, SRE practices and the DevOps philosophy.
• Attention to detail, a practical approach to the day-to-day work of story-writing and delivery, and can draw a line directly from an overarching client strategy to your team’s outcomes.
• Knowledge of established and emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery, including running systems across multi AZ, multi region and multi-cloud vendor environments.

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.