As a Technical Principal, you will work as the trusted technical advisor across a value stream. From design to delivery working with product leads to ensure strategic alignment, technical excellence and ensuring commercial goals are delivered. You will work under the guidance from an Engineering Manager within your product domain.
As you will be responsible for the security, performance, resilience and product excellence within the value stream, you’ll be working with the cross functional delivery teams to ensure this and bring the product vision to reality.
You will also be working alongside other Technical Principals to define the technical road map and ensuring alignment with product strategy. You will own and champion developer experience within your product teams, advocating and implementing best practices, and collaborate with the DevEx team to foster a highly productive engineering culture.
Providing team leadership and line management duties for a team of engineers of all experience levels, cultivating talent, performing performance reviews and recruiting new engineers.
You will stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and experiment with emerging technologies (e.g. AI) through POCs to identify and integrate breakthrough solutions.
About You
You will have software engineer background with experience of technically leading engineering teams with a strong delivery focus.
* You have a passion for solving technical challenges
* You able to demonstrate the strategic thinking and planning
* You are recognised as a technical leader by the entire Engineering Team
* You investigate and promote emerging technology for the benefit of the wider Engineering team
* You embrace change and actively seek ways to improve your professional self
* You take a keen interest in solving problems
* You act as a mentor to experienced team members across the department
* You communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
* You are delivery and customer focused
* You are comfortable working with third parties and constructively challenging technical approaches & persuasively suggesting alternate approaches, as and when required.
Minimum Criteria
* Experience as an engineering lead, with a strong track record of driving technical excellence and innovation
* Considerable experience as a software engineer
* Demonstrable experience of coaching, mentoring, and cultivating talent and recruitment.
* In-depth knowledge of software engineering methodologies, architectural principles, tools, technologies, and best practices.
* Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills
* Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and facilitation skills
* Excellent judgement, decision-making & influencing skills
* Innovative and solution-focused with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
* Experience of working alongside delivery partner leads and third parties
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