Principal Engineer, VP

• You’ll drive development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into a suitable design
• As well managing the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, you’ll lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
• By leading the planning, specifying, development and deployment of high performance, robust and resilient systems, you’ll ensure they follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
• We're offering this role at vice president level
  

Other Responsibilities Will Include

• Monitoring technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
• Delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the organisation
• Designing and develop high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications, using proven frameworks and technologies, and designing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the organisation
• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality
  

We’ll Also Be Looking For

• Experience of Java, Microservices and Cloud technologies
• An excellent understanding of building scalable and maintainable solutions
• Experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, as well as mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
• A background in designing or implementing APIs, and an-depth knowledge of large scale database and NoSQL design and optimisation