Equiniti Looking for Principal Framework Engineer at City of London , London Full Time

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

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the development or configuration team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Principal engineers 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. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM 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 inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required
• 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
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• 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.
• Take an interest in and show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Technical Responsibilities

SFIA Skill: Level 5
Configuration management CFMG

• Plans the capture and management of CIs and related information.
• Agrees scope of configuration management processes and the configuration items (CIs) and related information to be controlled.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate tools, techniques and processes for configuration management.
• Contributes to the development of configuration management strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines.

Skills Capabilities and Attributes

• Agile Methodologies – Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering
• Analytical – business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle management
• Pension and Wealth Life and Pension system configuration
• Analysis and implementation of requirements, including:
• Workflow design and configuration
• Calculation Configuration
• Reporting solutions
• Work Management and MI
• Configuration Management
• Content Management Systems
• Compendia
• Administrator
• CAST
• GCW
• Compose
• Umbraco
• dotCMS
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• SQL, T-SQL
• Azure Cloud Platform, AWS
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio

Relevant Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems
• Experience in engineering development or configuration for a Product SaaS organisation
• Experience of having led conceptualization and development or configuration of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products
• Experience in Pensions and Financial Services

What We Offer

Save For Your Future – Equiniti Pension Plan; Matched up to 10%

All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners 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

Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits – Ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off – 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days.

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