Engineering Lead / Principal Software & Data Engineering · London ·

Toyota Connected Europe wants to create a better world through connected mobility for all. We are a new company created to bring big data and a customer focus into all aspects of the mobility experience, so everyone’s experience is more personal, convenient, fun and safe. We create and enable technologies to delight and simplify the lives of everyone who use our products and empower them to think of and use our services in new ways.

You will be joining us at the beginning of Toyota Connected Europe’s journey of building our team and products. We are building teams to inspire, innovate and build technologies and products that are used by millions of people from all walks of life. We want every member of our team to live and breathe the start‑up culture of Toyota Connected Europe and feel and act like an owner every day. This is an opportunity to have an immediate impact and voice: what you create today, you will see being used tomorrow.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to join the team who will have a pivotal role in building core team capabilities and leading the design, development, implementation and documentation of large‑scale, distributed software applications, systems and services. You will 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.

What you will do:

• 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 and thrive as an independent, autonomous, creative thinker that can break out from conventional solutions.
• 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 and that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively, making recommendations and assess and manage associated risks.
• Plan and drive systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives, select, adopt and adapt appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques. Ensure that stakeholders are aware of required resources and manage optimum availability and utilisation.
• Plan and drive activities to develop systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration, identify evaluate and manage the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework.
• Contributes to identifying new areas of capability improvement within the organisation, select and prioritise improvement opportunities, generate buy‑in and plans improvement activities justified by measurable benefits.
• Determine development needs for a professional practice area, align development activities with organisational priorities, learning and development strategies and career pathways.
• Collaborate with other talented lead engineers in a team‑oriented, agile software engineering environment, to build engineering and capability maturity.
• 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), ensuring observability and surfacing of key metrics.
• Line management of team, influence, coach and lead team members through continuously sharing of knowledge, pair programming, code reviews, delivering feedback and improvement opportunities in technology - encouraging and developing good engineering practice and ways of working.
• Evolve technology and team capabilities - define and own technology strategy and delivery via a balanced roadmap.

About you:

• Great technology leader and team player, focused on achieving best team outcomes through coaching, collaboration and continuous improvement; experience of running and optimising distributed teams.
• Highly technical seasoned technologist, with hands‑on expertise, combined with strong communication skills who can articulate and deliver best fit solutions covering functional and non‑functional requirements within constraints of time and team capacity/velocity.
• Passion for excellence in engineering, cloud and secure practices – able to make positive impact at both the team and enterprise level for strategic initiatives.
• Experience of building and designing event driven and/or streaming data services, IoT domain would be great but not essential.
• Expert programming experience in Java (11+) and show a sense of ownership and pride in your code; make us believe you will excel.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit5, Mockito, Spring Integration.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (ideally AWS), ideally provisioning infrastructure and services through code (IaC).
• Expertise and experience working with APIs (designing with OpenAPI is desirable) and web services, CI/CD pipelines (Git‑lab desirable) and automated testing (BDD, Performance, Security), Kubernetes and cloud native practices, containerized workloads with tools such as Docker.
• Experience and expertise of implementing best practice engineering patterns, including those used in highly scalable, distributed, and resilient systems.
• Able to identify and champion areas of innovation in tooling and techniques and understand timing for adoption.
• Experience of setting good practice of software architecture, design and implementation; ensure adherence and keeping up to date with industry trends.
• Experience of setting standards and using tools to design, code, test, correct and provide documentation.
• Passion for agile practices such as Kanban/Lean, DevSecOps, incremental delivery, continuous improvement and ability to cultivate a strong, generative team culture.

Equal Opportunities, Inclusion & Diversity

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive group of talent with a broad range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities and will give full and fair consideration to all applicants. We know that flexibility is key to success and our people work flexibly in many ways, so if this is important to you, please let us know. If you have a disability or any other additional need that requires consideration, accommodation or adjustment to the role or recruitment process, please do let us know.