Principal Engineer

Management Level

E

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the configuration or development team

With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday

Principal engineers thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward

They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes

Professional Responsibilities SFIA Responsibility Level: 5 Ensure, Advise

Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home

Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products

Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality

Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc, on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required

Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs

Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed

Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team

Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc,

Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately

Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Technical Responsibilities SFIA Skill: Programming/software development PROG at Level 5

Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development

Plans and drives software construction activities

Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques

Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security

Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development

Education And Experience

Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc,

Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems

Experience in engineering development or configuration for a Product SaaS organisation

Experience of having led conceptualization and development or configuration of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products

Professional Skills And Qualities

Agile Methodologies Scrum

Efficiency improvement

Configuration management

Release readiness

Documentation / technical writing

Process, data, system engineering

Analytical business, process, data, system

Lifecycle management

Problem solving

Personal Skills And Qualities

Emotional intelligence and empathy

Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism

Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation

Active listening and observation

Continuous learning

Language and communication

Creative thinking

Resilience, perseverance and patience

Ownership and dependability

Critical thinking

Time management

Decision-making

Innovative thinking

Technical Experience At Expert Level

Full Stack development

Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux

BDD, TDD, Cucumber

Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)

REST Services

Database Design

Responsive web design

Dependency Injection

Data access and persistence

ORM frameworks

Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices

Web accessibility standards

Web security principles

SAST and DAST tools

Content Management Systems

Message queuing systems

Application architecture

Containers

Micro Services

Source code control

Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines

SQL, PL/SQL, C

OAuth, Identity Server,

Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

Domain Knowledge

Experience in Financial Services preferred

Experience in Pensions welcomed

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks