DescriptionAs 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.QualificationsYou 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 partiesBenefitsMotability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
We find solutions
We drive change
We careWe operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
1 day for volunteering
Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
Funded health screening for over 50s
Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
Generous family leave policiesAt Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
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