Principal Software Engineering (Azure and Integration) in London

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Location: UK-based hybrid role, occasional travel to site. Centrica, Technology is a core driver of how we deliver our strategy. You'll join a team modernising our platforms, strengthening cyber and operational resilience, and advancing a product-led way of working that brings engineers, data specialists and business experts together to deliver meaningful outcomes at pace. We're scaling automation and AI from proof-of-concept into real, end-to-end change - improving customer journeys, reducing cost-to-serve, accelerating delivery, and building the digital foundations that underpin everything from energy trading and risk to field operations and critical infrastructure.

If you want to work on complex, high-impact problems using modern engineering practices, and help build reusable platforms that will shape how Centrica operates over the next decade, this is the place to do it.

An opportunity to play your part: Centrica is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Azure and Integration Principal Software Engineer to join our Field Platform team. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, architectural vision and engineering standards to evolve and scale the Field Platform across an Azure-based ecosystem. This role is pivotal in shaping secure, performant, resilient and reusable platform capabilities and ensuring the highest standards in software engineering.

Day to day:

• People: Lead through influence and technical expertise across squads, shaping engineering standards, best practices and technical decision-making without direct line management. Coach, mentor and support engineers, acting as a positive role model and helping teams develop their technical capabilities and ways of working. Support recruitment activities, including technical assessment and selection of engineering talent.
• Product: Partner with Product and Engineering stakeholders to develop and influence product strategy, using technical insight to identify opportunities that deliver business value. Maintain a strong understanding of business strategy, performance and engineering operating costs, ensuring teams remain focused on product outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Delivery: Lead technical workstreams, helping teams navigate architectural decisions, priorities and delivery trade-offs to achieve successful outcomes. Coach teams on effective delivery practices, including iterative development, work breakdown, estimation and early value delivery. Monitor team health and delivery metrics, proactively identifying issues, removing blockers and driving continuous improvement across teams and the wider organisation.
• Engineering: Define and drive the technical strategy, architecture and engineering standards for large-scale platforms and product suites. Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient and cost-effective solutions, ensuring alignment with wider enterprise architecture. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews and architectural governance, supporting high-quality, secure and maintainable software delivery. Lead the evolution and adoption of engineering practices, principles and communities, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across Centrica. Support major incidents and post-incident reviews, using insights to strengthen systems, teams and engineering practices. Stay connected to industry trends, emerging technologies and best practices, identifying opportunities that can be leveraged across the organisation.

What we need from you:

• Essential Skills & Experience: Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including compute, networking, storage, integration services, platform security and cost optimisation. Strong experience designing scalable, resilient and secure technical architectures, with the ability to produce both high-level and detailed solution designs. Extensive knowledge of integration and API design patterns, including REST APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging, microservices and orchestration. Expert understanding of modern software engineering principles and architecture patterns, including SOLID, Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design, with sufficient .NET knowledge to guide technical direction. Strong understanding of data architecture, including SQL, data modelling, governance and data flow design. Experience embedding security-by-design principles, covering identity and access management, data protection, compliance and secure development practices. Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, environment lifecycle management, observability, monitoring, telemetry and performance optimisation. Excellent stakeholder management, communication and technical documentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across both technical and business audiences.
• Desirable Skills & Experience: Experience with Azure DevOps and modern cloud engineering toolchains. Experience working in product-led organisations and cross-functional delivery teams. Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and build alignment across multiple teams, domains and business functions. Experience facilitating architecture forums, governance processes, design reviews and technical decision-making. Understanding of AI-enabled tools and how they can enhance software engineering and delivery practices. Experience working with strategic technology partners and tooling providers, such as Microsoft and Datadog.

Why should you apply? We're not a perfect place - but we're a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That's why we've designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we're a great place to work and what being part of more means for you. If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

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