Principal Framework Engineer

Management Level

E

Principal Framework Engineer

Reporting To

Head of Framework Engineering

Business Unit

Product & Engineering

Nature of Experience

A highly experienced engineer with expert domain knowledge, impacting customers, the team, products and processes.

Description

The principal engineer role is a senior technical role at the heart of the development or configuration team. With a passion for technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Principal engineers thrive on the chance to employ their multi-faceted skills to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products, the department, their team and individuals forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement or programme acceleration and contribute significantly to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Professional Responsibilities

• Ensure you and your Squad adhere to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required
• Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Technical Responsibilities

SFIA Skill: Level 5
Configuration management CFMG

• Plans the capture and management of CIs and related information.
• Agrees scope of configuration management processes and the configuration items (CIs) and related information to be controlled.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate tools, techniques and processes (including automation) for configuration management.
• Contributes to the development of configuration management strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines.

Education

Relevant Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems
• Experience in engineering development or configuration for a Product SaaS organisation
• Experience of having led conceptualization and development or configuration of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products

Professional Skills and Qualities

Personal Skills and Qualities

Skills

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering
• Analytical - business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle management
• Problem solving

Qualities

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking
• Resilience, perseverance and patience
• Ownership and dependability
• Critical thinking
• Time management
• Decision-making
• Innovative thinking

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Expert Level

Domain Skills and Qualities, at Advanced Level

• Pension and Wealth Life and Pension system configuration
• Analysis and implementation of requirements, including:
• Workflow design and configuration
• Calculation Configuration
• Reporting solutions
• Work Management and MI 
• Configuration Management
• Content Management Systems
• Awareness of: Database Design, Responsive web design, Data access and persistence, Web accessibility standards, Web security principles, Application architecture, Source code control, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
• Compendia
• Administrator
• CAST
• GCW
• Compose
• Umbraco
• dotCMS
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• SQL, T-SQL
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio
• Experience in Pensions and Financial Services

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.