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Location: Manchester (hybrid) (4 days a week on site)

The role

Opportunity to join a greenfield build focused on a next-generation Corporate Actions platform within a global financial environment.

This is a hands-on Principal IC role with no line management, owning architecture and driving engineering direction across a large-scale distributed system.

What you’ll do

  • Design and build Java (Spring Boot) microservices
  • Architect event-driven systems (Kafka / messaging)
  • Apply AI/ML to real-world business problems
  • Work with modern development tooling, including AI-assisted environments
  • Influence technical direction and engineering standards

What you’ll need

  • Experience operating at Principal / Staff / Architect level
  • Strong Java and distributed systems background
  • Hands-on AI/ML experience (Python or similar)
  • Experience with Kafka or MQ, SQL/Oracle, cloud and containerisation

Nice to have

  • Financial services experience (post-trade, custody, corporate actions, trading)

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