Strategic Principal Engineer (FinTech)

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom; hybrid, with a minimum of three days per week in the Edinburgh office and some work from home

Company

hirify.global is a global financial administration company with more than 11,000 employees across over 22 countries.

What you will do

• Shape engineering strategy and technology direction across the Issuer Services Technology function.
• Advise senior leadership on application development, cloud, infrastructure, security, data, and digital platforms.
• Lead highly complex technical and business challenges across multiple teams and technology domains.
• Translate business objectives and emerging technology opportunities into engineering strategies, solutions, and roadmaps.
• Evaluate and promote emerging technologies and modern engineering practices to improve productivity, quality, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes.
• Mentor senior engineers, share technical expertise, and foster continuous improvement and innovation.

Requirements

• Significant technology leadership experience delivering large-scale web and mobile applications in Financial Services or FinTech.
• Experience in a Financial Services organisation undergoing digital transformation or a FinTech business delivering digital products and platforms.
• Experience evaluating, adopting, and championing emerging technologies with measurable improvements in engineering productivity, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an impact-driven approach to business value.
• Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills across technology, product, and business functions.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• Expert-level experience in one or more modern technology stacks, including Java, .NET, BPM, SQL, or related enterprise technologies.
• Experience establishing engineering best practices and influencing engineering strategy at enterprise level.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work supporting balance between office and home working.
• Health and wellbeing rewards for employees and their families.
• Salary sacrifice opportunity to purchase company shares with a company contribution.
• Recognition awards, team events, and support for investing in the future.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture with opportunities for learning, growth, and career progression.