Principal Engineer in Leeds, West Yorkshire

Principal Engineer
£550 p/d INSIDE IR35
6 months initially
Hybrid (must be onsite in Leeds x2 days per week)

Job Spec;
The role requires a hands-on technical leader with excellent customer facing skills and ability to influence business, architecture and technical stakeholders to manage and deliver successful solutions. You will be providing technical leadership and ownership of projects, guiding the client in shaping their ideas by applying your technical knowledge and experience primarily in Digital technologies/engineering principles.

You will coordinate and lead teams of Application Engineers and continually drive forward quality, standards, tooling and development practices.

You will be primarily responsible for:

• Being a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions following the engineering principles of the client organization e.g. test driven, SOLID, 12 factor etc. Where required you will constructively challenge and improve these principles
• Collaborating with other technology teams and technology governance functions to resolve dependencies e.g. interfaces, infrastructure, security, performance, resilience
• Designing and delivering complex full stack digital products encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods
• Being a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving complex technical challenges, and establishing credibility and deep relationships with senior technical and business individuals within the customers' organisation
• Documenting and demonstrating solutions by writing documentation, creating and leading customer presentations, creating and maintaining solution / data models / interface specifications, reviewing low level designs and help solve technical challenges
• Ensuring the implementation of agreed architecture and patterns within a complex existing client landscape
• Owning delivery methodology, development practice, quality assurance process, etc. within the team(s) for which you are responsible

Skills:
In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following:

• Strong appreciation of front end delivery concerns including what well architected front end solutions look like (SPA, mobile and traditional MVC) with extensive knowledge of React and/or React Native
• Extensive Experience with delivering integration micro-service patterns in Node
• Extensive experience with common backend Node libraries such as Express, Apollo, Restify, Grunt, Mocha, Jest etc. Particularly Apollo and GraphQL concepts and implementation
• Experience of working with SQL and NoSQL Cloud DBs specifically Mongo
• Test Automation and Tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, Cypress
• Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products.
• Systems design experience, with the ability to articulate complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and other methods
• Experience in leading software delivery lifecycles (both agile and more traditional forms), including: DevOps platforms, CI / CD services and approaches, Automated testing of JS Front End and Node applications
• Experience with DevOps tooling and application hosting services such as: Jenkins, Azure DO, Atlassian, Docker, Azure/GCP/AWS Serverless functions
• Leading design, delivery and test best practise, covering: Test strategies (contract led, automation, etc), Security assurance (ITHC, penetration testing), Cyber security and insider threat auditing
• You will be comfortable working with and influencing varied seniority levels both internally and with clients; and training and educating at all levels.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.