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Principal Engineer

Job Posted: 6 hours ago

  • Salary: £ 600 - 630 / Day

    Job Type: Contract

  • Location: London

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Principal Engineer 12 months Remote Active SC & NPPV3 clearance required Inside IR35 - Umbrella only Job Description Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Develop engineering capability through coaching, recruitment, and career development aligned with DDaT frameworks. Excellent development skills, with a depth of experience including C#, Java (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate), REST API's, observability and monitoring, queue technologies and security. Detailed knowledge of best practices such as SOLID principles Experience of building new and evolving microservices with emphasis on high availability and data integrity. Highly experienced in test methodologies including unit testing with JUnit, use of TDD, integration tests and end-to-end testing, as a way to promote high quality codebases. Working with relational databases -Postgres would be of particular relevance. Supporting and developing complex architecture including APIs Willing to be part of a 24/7 L3 support team (on call) Management and resolution of tickets relating to incident, change, service request and problem processes in accordance with the agreed PPPT / DDaT operating modelsDay to day task will include Developing and maintaining the existing service. Updated service documentation where necessary. Peer reviews Demonstration and acceptance of changes by the Programme Manager or agent on behalf of PM during the Sprint Review. Supporting and mentoring junior staffSkills required We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join the SAS PPPT Leadership team. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate leadership of complex projects and stakeholder engagement. Leading Multiple Teams of Engineers on complex projects Engaging with Stakeholders Leadership/Mentoring Backlog refinement and preparation of user stories In depth knowledge of a fourth-generation programming language (4GL) Object orientated analysis and designSkills required (Desirable) Front End Java Script/View JS An interest/skills in AWS DevOps principles and orchestration tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes clusters including helm charts, Git Provide assurance on technical decisions, risk mitigation, and compliance with GDS standards. Good communication and interpersonal skills to be able to work with both business and technical stakeholders at various levels in the organisation. AWS Kubernetes PHP/Drupal WordPress: Caching, CDN integration, and database tuning All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply

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