At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead mobile engineering, shape technical strategy, and mentor teams for excellence.
- Company: Join Centrica, a forward-thinking company focused on innovation and customer service.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team with a focus on continuous improvement and cutting-edge technology.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by developing world-class mobile applications that enhance customer experiences.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in mobile engineering and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Location: UK-based hybrid role, Occasional travel to site.
Centrica is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer (Mobile) to join our Field Platform team. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership for the mobile engineering domain, helping to build world‑class applications that enable our Field Engineers to deliver exceptional customer service. You’ll play a key role in shaping technical strategy, driving engineering excellence and ensuring our mobile platforms remain scalable, reliable and innovative.
Day to day
- People Coach, mentor and support engineers across the organisation, acting as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement. Contribute to growing high‑performing engineering teams through technical recruitment, assessment and selection activities.
- Product Partner with Product and Engineering stakeholders to influence product strategy, ensuring technical decisions align with customer, business and operational objectives. Use your deep mobile engineering expertise to identify opportunities, shape future capabilities and drive product outcomes. Maintain a strong understanding of business priorities, platform performance and engineering operating costs, helping teams balance innovation, value and sustainability.
- Delivery Support teams in adopting effective delivery practices, including iterative development, estimation, prioritisation and continuous value delivery. Monitor delivery health and team performance, proactively identifying risks, removing blockers and driving improvements across ways of working. Guide teams through technical and delivery challenges, ensuring a focus on simplicity, quality and customer value.
- Engineering Define and drive the technical strategy, architecture and standards for Centrica's mobile platforms and applications. Design scalable, resilient and maintainable mobile solutions that support both current and future business needs. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design reviews and code reviews, ensuring solutions are secure, performant and aligned to broader platform strategy. Support critical incidents and post‑incident reviews, driving learning and continuous improvement across engineering teams. Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, operational excellence and modern software delivery approaches. Lead engineering communities, guilds and knowledge‑sharing initiatives, helping to raise technical capability across the wider organisation. Stay current with emerging mobile technologies, industry trends and engineering practices, identifying opportunities to enhance Centrica's digital products and platforms.
What we need from you
Essential Skills
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