About ThoughtWorks

We are a global software consultancy and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.

As a Technical Principal for one of ThoughtWorks’ Financial Services clients, you have total responsibility for the technical delivery on the client engagement. You are likely to have in-depth knowledge and background in the banking and finance domain.

Here’s what you will bring:

• Experience of incrementally transforming legacy finance technology (monolithic systems, batch based mainframe systems, vendor packages) to modern technologies and practices, to increase time to market, performance and data freshness. 
• Deep understanding of at least one of the following business domains:Investment Banking, Retail banking, Payments or Funds Management
• Expertise in multiple technologies (including Java, .Net, Ruby/Scala/Clojure etc) across software engineering, security, data interchange, data management etc.
• Experience as an architect and leading and inspiring software development teams
• Understanding of the practical application of agile development methods and leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment
• Experience working directly with senior IT groups in an advisory role 
• Any experience building and leading an offshore/outsourcing function would be highly beneficial.
• Solid understanding of the following areas (with practical experience in several): 
• One or more public cloud offerings along with value added services such as message queues, databases, etc.
• Cloud native architecture styles (domain-driven design, microservices)
• Infrastructure as Code (Container Orchestration, Observability, CI/CD) 
• Modern security practices (SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP)
• Modern API platform design (REST, gRPC, etc.)
• Modern data architectures (e.g. event driven architectures, data democratization, platform approaches to support ML/AI at scale, stream processing, and integrating real time analytics into customer applications)

As a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks here is what you will do:

• Take the needs and challenges of a client and formulate the technical roadmap and technology solution that will support their business strategies and goals.
• Provide technical leadership across all areas of the enterprise to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions.
• Formulate and articulate the technical and political implication of real-world solutions.
• Orchestrate the management of technology scope and risks.
• Mentor on approach and execution of solutions, coach on technologies and establishing a team-wide comprehension of solution capabilities and direction.
• Ensure technical expectations of deliverables are met.
• Drive ThoughtWorks’ Thought-Leadership on engineering and architectural practices and standards.
• Become a trusted and valued partner of the client CIO/CTO and team.
• Exploit opportunities for networking and relationship building that arise out of delivery activities.
• Create and support sales activities.
• Code! We don’t subscribe to the “post-technical” ivory tower leadership style.