Engineering Lead / Principal in London

Responsibilities

• Join the team who will have a critical role in building core team capabilities and leading the design, development, implementation and documentation of large-scale, distributed software applications.
• Lead the development of platforms which will enable our vehicles to communicate to the cloud. The features you build will power driving experiences across the world.
• Define and drive the adoption of leading principles, practices, standards and technologies to develop high quality, robust and secure technology solutions.
• Work closely with product and stakeholders to best solve business problems, shape and deliver features to customers, partner to set the optimum direction of the product roadmap.
• Technical responsibility for software development across all stages and iterations.
• Plan and drive software construction activities, adopt and adapt appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measure and monitor applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security, contributing to the development of policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Systems and software design of large or complex systems, undertake impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs, ensuring balance of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Adopt and adapt system design methods, tools and techniques; contributing to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
• Plan and drive systems development projects which support the organisation’s objectives.
• Ensure that stakeholders are aware of required resources and manage optimum availability and utilisation.
• Ensure projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
• Plan and drive activities to develop systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
• Lead integration work in line with the agreed system and service design, assess risk and take preventative action.
• Contribute to identifying new areas of capability improvement within the organisation, select and prioritise improvement opportunities.
• Determine development needs for a professional practice area, align development activities with organisational priorities.
• Assist with the creation of development plans, ensuring alignment with professional development plans and career opportunities.
• Collaborate with other talented lead engineers in a team-oriented, agile software engineering environment.
• Responsible for service delivery (build and run) from concept to code to production - availability, reliability, robustness and quality of projects and platforms.
• Collaborate with peers (Product, Quality, Delivery, Operations) to drive operational quality (NFR’s).
• Line management of team, influence, coach and lead team members through continuously sharing of knowledge.
• Evolve technology and team capabilities - define and own technology strategy and delivery via a balanced roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience of setting standards and using tools to design, code, test, correct and provide documentation.
• Expertise and experience working with APIs and web services, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Experience and expertise of implementing best practice engineering patterns, including those used in highly scalable, distributed, and resilient systems.
• Expert programming experience in Java (11+) and show a sense of ownership and pride in your code.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit5, Mockito, Spring Integration.
• Highly technical seasoned technologist, with hands-on expertise, combined with strong communication skills.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (ideally AWS), ideally provisioning infrastructure and services through code (IaC).
• Passion for agile practices such as Kanban/Lean, DevSecOps, incremental delivery, continuous improvement.
• Experience of building and designing event driven and/or streaming data services.
• Great technology leader and team player, focused on achieving best team outcomes through coaching, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Able to identify and champion areas of innovation in tooling and techniques.