{"id":4000288,"url":"https://alion.io/job/schroders-principal-software-engineer-wealth-technology","title":"Principal Software Engineer - Wealth Technology","company":{"id":1759316,"name":"Schroders","domain":"schroders.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/schroders-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":8,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.375,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":25,"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T21:08:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T01:14:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Who we’re looking for\nWe are looking for an experienced Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer to design, build and operate production-grade capabilities across APIs, data products, enterprise integrations and tools used by agents. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who can take complex problems from first idea through design, implementation, release and ongoing support.\nYou will remain strongly hands-on while providing technical direction across teams. You will create reusable engineering patterns, make sound architectural trade-offs, mentor other engineers and raise standards for testing, security, observability, deployment and support. The role requires breadth across software, data and integration, with the depth to resolve difficult engineering problems and deliver reliable solutions in a regulated environment.\nAbout Us\nSchroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions. We aim to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We serve a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.\nEstablished in 1804, we have around 5,500 people across 36 global locations. Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies.\nAbout Cazenove Capital\nCazenove Capital is the wealth management business of Schroders. We support private individuals, families, charities, family offices and institutions with investment management, wealth planning, banking and related services.\nThe base\nWe moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and we have everything we need to work flexibly.\nThe opportunity in Wealth Technology\nWealth has ambitious growth objectives. Supporting that growth requires us to scale the expertise of our advisers, planners and support teams without increasing headcount at the same rate.\nOur approach is to build practical technology that improves the workflows driving commercial and client outcomes. That includes secure APIs, trusted data products, enterprise integrations and reusable tools that allow applications, workflows and governed agents to act on consistent business capabilities. The objective is to create components that can be used repeatedly across Wealth, increasing delivery speed without compromising control, resilience or supportability.\nThe team\nYou will join Wealth Technology and work directly with business, product, architecture, data, security and control teams. As a principal engineer, you will combine hands-on delivery with technical leadership: shaping solutions, influencing engineering direction.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, build and operate full-stack capabilities, with particular depth in Python services, APIs and backend engineering.\n\nCreate secure, reusable APIs and integration components that expose business capabilities consistently across the Wealth technology estate.\n\nBuild governed data products and pipelines, turning source data into reliable, documented and reusable services for applications, analytics and agents.\n\nDevelop tools that agents can use safely to retrieve data, invoke workflows and complete defined actions, with appropriate authentication, permissions, guardrails and auditability.\n\nOwn engineering outcomes across the full lifecycle, including design, code, automated testing, deployment, observability, operational readiness and continuous improvement.\n\nProvide principal-level technical leadership through design reviews, reusable patterns, mentoring and constructive challenge, while remaining accountable for working software in production.\n\nThe knowledge, experience and qualifications you need\nSubstantial hands-on software engineering experience and a strong record of delivering production systems across the full development lifecycle.\n\nDeep Python engineering experience, including production services and APIs built with FastAPI or a comparable framework, plus the ability to work across user-facing components where required.\n\nStrong understanding of API design, distributed systems, enterprise integration, authentication and authorisation, event-driven and batch patterns, testing, deployment and observability.\n\nExperience creating data products and robust data pipelines using technologies such as Snowflake, SQL, dbt, Azure Data Factory or comparable cloud data tooling, including data modelling, quality and lineage.\n\nExperience building tool-using applications or agent capabilities, including reliable tool interfaces, structured inputs and outputs, permissions, evaluation, failure handling and operational controls.\n\nPrincipal-level judgement: able to shape technical direction, simplify complex problems, influence across teams, mentor engineers and balance pace with security, resilience, maintainability and regulatory control.\n\nWhat you’ll be like\nA hands-on principal engineer who leads through technical credibility, working software and clear engineering judgement.\n\nOutcome-led and pragmatic, able to move quickly while building solutions that are secure, reusable, observable and supportable.\n\nComfortable operating across software, data, integration and agent tooling rather than within a single technical specialism.\n\nCollaborative and straightforward, able to mentor others, challenge constructively and influence technical decisions across organisational boundaries.\n\nWe Recognise Potential, Whoever You Are\nOur purpose is to deliver excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We believe diverse perspectives and an inclusive culture help us make better decisions and achieve better outcomes for our clients. That's why inclusion is a strategic priority for us, and we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.\nWe will consider flexible working arrangements for all roles and provide reasonable accommodations to support applicants and employees, including those with neurodiversity, disability, or physical and mental health needs. 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