Principal Engineer - Platforms
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Bristol, UK
Compensation: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Description
We're building the next UK-headquartered engineering powerhouse. There is a gulf between the needs of mission-focused organisations and the development and delivery of the critical technology they rely on. The consequences of this are felt acutely by underserved frontline operators, demanding a new breed of engineering enterprise to bridge this divide.
Rowden exists to meet this need. We design and build systems, infrastructure, and applications to deliver mission advantage to those working to protect the security of the UK and its allies. Rowden is setting a new standard in government technology provision: hyper-efficient engineering, better customer relationships, and rapid assimilation of commercial technology.
As part of this journey, we are scaling our platforms team. This team builds intelligent, resilient, and private solutions from the cloud to the far-edge, ensuring robust and secure operations for our clients. We currently work across cloud (Azure, AWS) and mobile (AOSP ROM) platforms hosting managed applications.
This position offers an incredible opportunity to do purposeful work in a fast-paced and challenging environment, and lead a technically brilliant team solving really hard problems. We are looking for individuals who are driven, collaborative, and passionate about making a difference. The Principal Engineer leads our platforms engineering team.
Key areas of responsibility
1. Architectural Vision and Best Practices: You'll work across the business to shape our system architectures and set the standard for engineering excellence for our hosting infrastructure solutions.
2. Strategic Technical Leadership: Your role will be pivotal in defining and advancing our strategic roadmap in Platforms, ensuring we achieve our goals with innovation and precision.
3. Design Authority: Leading and providing assurance of the design for privacy, security, compliance, high availability, performance, and resilience across all services and infrastructure capabilities (our cloud environments, applications, security, and service desks).
4. Engineering Alignment: Represent our team in high-level engineering decisions, ensuring our projects are in sync with broader organisational objectives.
5. Collaborative Product and Service Development: Work closely with our customer-facing teams to deliver seamless and standout product and service experiences.
6. Elevating Engineering Standards: Organize and lead engineering initiatives that uplift our standards, motivate our team, and drive ongoing improvements.
7. Industry Awareness and Adaptation: Stay on top of industry trends, especially in cloud and far-edge technologies, ensuring our solutions remain cutting-edge.
8. Mentorship and Team Growth: Passionately mentor and guide team members, fostering their professional growth and career development.
Key skills, experience, and behaviours
We are looking for someone passionate about technology who actively invests in their technical skills and abilities. You are already leading, but still heavily involved in technical solution implementation, and want to take your next step shaping the technical capabilities of a new business unit within a fast-growing SME. We are looking for a person with:
1. Extensive Technical Experience: You have thorough experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems, and can demonstrate significant contribution to large-scale projects as an architect or key individual contributor.
2. Deep Technical Expertise across Cloud and Managed Applications: You're experienced in building on and in private, hybrid, and public cloud environments, including IaC languages (e.g., Terraform), containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and programming languages (e.g., Python, Go).
3. Holistic Service Implementation and Delivery Track Record: You excel at implementing and delivering comprehensive secure service and support solutions, integrating various platforms and ensuring seamless operation: from initial ideation to deployment and support.
4. Assurance and Accreditation Experience: You possess a strong background in cybersecurity and information security practices, accreditation, and continuous assurance.
5. Decision-Making Leadership: You've led software and infrastructure evaluation and decision-making processes, ensuring the best appropriate technical choices are made for your organisation.
6. Strategic Roadmap Development: You've successfully crafted or contributed to multi-year engineering roadmaps that align with product strategies and business goals.
Highly Desirable Experience:
1. Experience in regulated sectors delivering complex networked systems, such as defence, national security, telecommunications, financial services, or automotive industries.
2. Specific experience designing, deploying, and supporting solutions to/at the far-edge in denied, disrupted, intermittent, or lossy communication environments.
Working at Rowden
We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!
We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average of 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements, and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
Finally, if you feel that you don't meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we'd still love to hear from you!
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