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# Principal Developer

- **Company:** AutoRek
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Salary:** £61,668.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Database Queries, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI, Software Tools, Software Engineering, SQL Server Reporting Services, Data Processing, Curam Configuration Tools, Low-code, Sql Tuning
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5892345938

## About the Role

* FinTech, SaaS, or Finance background.
 * Industry based reconciliation development or other reconciliation software tool experience
 * Proven experience delivering configuration/code on time and within budget.
 * Experience acting as a technical lead on projects.
 * Line management of small teams.
 * Strong understanding of the phases of the software development and implementation lifecycle.
 * Strong understanding of the Change Control Process to identify any movement of agreed scope.
 * Strong understanding of developing personal development plans, goals, and objective setting.
 * Strong MS SQL, data querying & data manipulation.
 * Strong time management and recording skills.
 * Ownership of & adherence to individual and team planned efforts.

## Description

What You'll Be Doing:
As a Principal Developer, you'll play a key role in delivering AutoRek's financial management solutions to our global client base. You'll:

 * Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals.
 * Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake.
 * Drive and develop best practices.
 * Line management
 * Implementing & Testing the AutoRek core financial management solution.
 * Review and sign off solution designs.
 * Direct project build team and oversee build effort.
 * Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase.
 * Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues.
 * Lead peer reviews.

Tech Stack You'll Work With:

 * MS SQL
 * SSRS / Power BI
 * Low-code configuration tools
 * Data querying and manipulation
 * SQL performance tuning


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