Principal Platform Engineer

Management Level

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

• Collaborates with those responsible for ongoing systems and software lifecycle management to select, adopt and adapt working practices. Leads the development of architectures
• 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
• Mentor and guide all engineers and assist with technical challenges as needed
• Ensures relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security and cost management) are applied correctly.Articulate the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline
• Contributes to identifying new domains within the organisation where systems and software lifecycle working practices can be deployed.

Technical Responsibilities

• Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Sets and contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
• Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs.
• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.
• Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate technologies, release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

Technical Skills

• WCF, REST, API Gateway, Messaging
• Azure DevOps
• GIT
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Services (Preferred)
• Identity Acces (e.g. ADFS,Oauth, Azure B2C , Identity Server, Certificates)
• ORM Tools (Entity Framework, Dapper, etc.)
• Umbraco
• JSON, XML, XSLT,  XPath,XQuery
• Lambda
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS
• React
• SQL Server
• Unit Test Tools (e.g. MS Unit Test Framework, Nunit, Xunit)
• .NET
• C#
• SonarQube
• App Scan
• MAUI

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.