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Principal Engineer

Royal Tunbridge Wells
4 days ago
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We have an exciting opportunity for two new Principal Engineers to join our Global Healthcare client.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, focused on building out our Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, but involving a significant .NET estate and use of Azure services. Our client’s mission is to re-platform their business, providing efficiency, flexibility, and more than anything else, better health outcomes for their millions of members in the UK.
Our client empowers their people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to 60% of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. As a leadership role there is an expectation of travel to London 1-2 times per month, and our Head Office of Tunbridge Wells which you’ll travel to 1-2 times per quarter. A full list of working locations include Tunbridge Wells, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Bristol and Bournemouth.
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT

  • Proven experience building and leading high performing engineering teams.
  • Expertise in Salesforce and its ecosystem, building business solutions using Salesforce and scaling them in large enterprises, integrating Salesforce based services with multiple different applications and architectures.
  • Experience with Azure and .NET services, ADO pipelines, and React web applications (preferred).
  • Experience designing and delivering complex solutions to time and budget, being accountable for outcomes not output.
  • Proven experience in being responsible for application estates that manage high volumes delivering critical business value, with experience of doing this in the financial services sector (preferred).
  • Strong stakeholder management across a variety of business domains.
  • Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits.
  • Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design.
  • Experience working in Agile environments and a deep understanding of how to ensure optimum flow of work through the full SDLC.
  • Prior experience working in a product-centric organisation preferred.
    JOB DESCRIPTION
  • Leading a product engineering team, taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our transformation roadmap.
  • Working within the Engineering Leadership Team to set the Engineering strategy and delivering on it.
  • Spending a large amount of your time being hands-on with the code, e.g. reviewing Pull Requests and ensuring best practices are followed by both full time and third-party engineers.
  • Inspiring excellence in our teams and driving improvements in employee engagement, performance, and wellbeing.
  • Representing engineering in your teams, working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Business subject matter experts, to ensure our business commitments are delivered with quality and to expectation.
  • Assessing new technology solutions.
  • Ensuring our non-functional requirements are met regarding performance, scalability, resilience, and GRC requirements (Information security, risk, industry regulation compliance).
  • Helping to encourage collaboration and product ownership across developers and testers.
  • Ensuring continual shift of secure, quality and tested code activity left.
  • Working to improve and ensure implementation of our SDLC.
  • Working in a multi-vendor environment, providing direction and support to the delivery teams.
  • Improving our core DORA metrics and ensuring optimal flow through our systems and processes.
    REMUNERATION PACKAGE ON OFFER
  • Annual company & performance-based bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
  • Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
  • Good holiday allowance and the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave
  • Employee discounts and gym benefits

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