At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the evolution of our Field Platform with innovative architecture and engineering standards.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on enhancing field operations through technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with diverse teams and external partners to drive innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping the future of field operations and driving digital transformation.
- Qualifications: Experience in solving complex technical challenges and designing scalable solutions.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Role Overview
The Principal Software Engineer provides the technical leadership, architectural vision, and engineering standards required to evolve and scale the Field Platform. The role ensures that our platform delivers a unified, performant, secure and resilient experience that enables thousands of field colleagues to work efficiently, safely and effectively every day.
Responsibilities
- Define & evolve the Field Platform architecture: set the long term architecture, patterns, and guardrails for Field platform services to ensure scalability, resilience, interoperability, and a unified experience.
- Drive consolidation and simplification of the estate: lead the rationalisation of the platform into a coherent platform, reducing duplication, technical debt, maintenance costs, and operational complexity.
- Shape cross domain technical design decisions: partner across Product, Architecture, Supply Chain, Scheduling, and Field Operations to drive consistent data models, integration patterns, UX principles, and standards across all field workflows.
- Identify and deliver new digital capabilities: work with product and business leaders to define new capabilities such as supply chain, quoting, workflow optimisation, and knowledge management to enhance safety, compliance, customer experience, and productivity.
- Establish engineering excellence across teams: champion high engineering standards including clean architecture, CI/CD automation, observability, testing strategies, release processes, telemetry, performance tuning, and secure by design principles.
- Lead platform performance, reliability & offline capability: ensure the environment performs reliably in challenging field conditions such as poor signal or offline mode.
- Influence and steward Security, SRE, Quality and Platform wide capabilities: shape quality, resilience and security strategies across teams.
- Continuously improve how work is done: identify opportunities to automate, simplify, reduce cycle time, improve developer experience, adopt new tools and AI, and scale better engineering practices.
Key Stakeholders
The Principal Software Engineer works closely with the Head of Engineering, Product Managers, and Field Operations SMEs. The role also collaborates with external partners and tooling providers such as Microsoft and Datadog.
Leadership & Influence
Lead through influence and expertise, shaping backlog, standards and adoption; coach analysts/engineers; model product led, iterative delivery and high standards of quality and controls.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience solving complex, cross domain technical challenges involving mobile, backend APIs, orchestration layers and field operational workflows.
- Strong architectural judgment balancing near term delivery with long term sustainability.
- Proficiency in designing scalable patterns that support multiple business domains.
- Experience with AI enabled solutions in enterprise environments, including prompt driven workflows, retrieval augmented systems and AI agents.
- Knowledge of field workforce operations (installation, service, repair) and related compliance, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience working in product led organisations and cross functional teams.
Core Competencies
- Architectural design and pattern creation.
- CI/CD, observability, testing, release management.
- Performance tuning, caching, offline capabilities.
- Security hygiene, SRE practices, resilience.
- AI evaluation, monitoring, responsible lifecycle management.
Principal Engineer - Platform Enablement in Windsor employer: Job Search Place Limited
As a Principal Engineer at our company, you will be part of a dynamic and innovative work culture that prioritises collaboration and technical excellence. We offer competitive benefits, including opportunities for professional development and growth, ensuring that you can advance your career while contributing to meaningful projects that impact thousands of field colleagues. Located in a vibrant area, our workplace fosters creativity and teamwork, making it an ideal environment for those looking to make a significant difference in the field of technology.
