As a Senior Team Manager Technology / Principal Engineer you will play a key role in guiding the organization towards a stronger focus on outcomes and customer needs. With experience across a range of technology domains, your adaptability and ability to become proficient in new skills in a rapidly changing environment are as important as your technical skills. 

What You’ll Do  

• Providing technical and functional leadership, mentorship, and direction to team members, while discovering new techniques and helping others to adopt them 

• Collaborate with different engineering teams to deliver value through the delivery of high-quality software within an agile development lifecycle 

• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on and contribute to architectural decisions at a team and company-wide level 

• Bring knowledge of working in a regulated industry to understand problems we face, leverage design patterns and automation to support a continuous integration/continuous deployment or development (CI/CD) 

• Contribute to the wider company goals, ensuring consistent standards and approaches to software development while designing to a common shared framework 

• Work with the right and robust engineering practices and help establish them company wide. 

How You’ll Lead 

• Provide engineering thought leadership across teams, mentor and coach engineers and encourage continuous improvement in delivery practices 

• Lead and collaborate across teams, while building high performing teams and promoting an engineering culture, as well as a learning organization and recognizing the importance of “developer experience” 

• Lead by example 

Skills You’ll Need  

• Extensive experience in the IT industry with hands-on development in Java Programming (Spring Boot), NodeJS, Go and Cloud Native technologies. 

• Leading distributed engineering teams in an agile environment 

• Hands-on experience in building distributed computing solutions (Service Orientated Architecture / Microservices) and developing on Kubernetes (OpenShift Container Platform) and Google Cloud Platform 

• Experience with Test Driven Development, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed version control tool (Git, Github, Gitlab), and CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Gitlab, Circle CI) 

Skills That Will Help You Excel 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken 

• Educated to degree level in Computer Science or equivalent qualification or work experience