Description
Role Overview
The Principal Engineer is responsible for the technical leadership for complex strategic systems and product development, including designing and documenting technical frameworks and architectures and leading the implementation from a development and engineering perspective.
Primary Objectives
- Responsible for providing technical leadership in Agile development teams
- Ensuring architecture design is realized in the end product
- Support and influence selection and adoption of core technologies, development tools and standards in conjunction with Architects, Directors and Senior Engineering Managers
- Key contributor to defining and governing development standards and processes working with Engineering management
- Partner with product owners, architects and managers across the enterprise, to identify business needs and appropriate technical solutions.
- Development of prototypes and Proof of Concept applications as required to prove new architectures and technologies
- Lead the development of core frameworks and services
- Communication and stakeholder management of technology and business stakeholders
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers to support business and operational partners.
Knowledge & Skills
- At least 8 years experience in software engineering with at least 2 years in a technical lead role
- Excellent understanding of business challenges around delivery of Digital solutions at pace within a large organisation;
- Ability to translate and articulate business requirements in terms appropriate to the audience; ability to determine the best technical solution to meet a business outcome.
- Experience with Domain Driven Design, Micro Services, API First, Cloud Stacks, Structured and Unstructured Databases and Big Data Platforms.
- Have a strong architecture background with deep knowledge of large scale enterprise business systems and solutions integration. Provide technical thought leadership and proven ability to compare and contrast different technologies to meet a business requirement and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption. Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of:
- Service architecture - Experience of API and service based architectures using REST APIs, micro-services and utilising JSON for web applications
- Enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions including: MongoDB, in-memory databases and caching solutions adopted for globally distributed Digital solutions
- CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre
- Cloud Technologies - PaaS/IaaS/SaaS -Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, etc
- Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean User Experience (UX), XP
- User Interface (UI) - Solid awareness of cross-browser/device responsive development. Standards compliant HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Bootstrap
- User Interface (UI) - Knowledge of implementation considerations for UI technologies including jQuery, AngularJS, Node.js, Ember.js, React, Dojo, Backbone.js
- High availability and contingency solutions
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing others, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations
- Detail oriented with a passion for Quality
Can do, Will do attitude.