Developing target service-based architectures and producing incremental modernisation roadmaps
Leading technical working sessions and workshops to drive architectural decisions
Providing technical rigour across all deliverables to ensure they are stakeholder-ready
Mentoring engineering teams and lifting quality through design reviews, code reviews and pair programming
Mentoring future leads/principals
Supporting pre-sales and solutioning conversations with deep technical credibility
Embedding AI tooling and agentic coding practices into how teams design, build and ship
Establishing Communities of Practice
Attracting top talent by defining a modern engineering culture

Deep expertise in modern software engineering
Proven expertise in client delivery management and operations
Advanced skills across modern back-end and front-end stacks (e.g. Java/Spring, .NET/C#, Node.js, TypeScript/React, Angular or Vue.js)
A solid handle on cloud-native deployment patterns (Kubernetes and containerisation across AWS, Azure or GCP)
Hands-on experience with API design and integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
Strong grasp of authentication and application security fundamentals (OAuth 2.0, OIDC)
Experience conducting codebase deep-dives to identify architectural patterns
Modern delivery practices
SCRUM, TDD, BDD, FDD, trunk-based development, CI/CD pipelines
AI and agentic coding fluency
A consulting mindset

Principal Engineer

Key skills