principal engineer

Ordnance Survey are currently looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team. At OS, we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic offices in Southampton or London, or from home. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £60,690 - £78,540 per annum.

Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years.

We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Principal Engineer:

• Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus
• Competitive pension scheme
• Flexible working options
• 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas
• Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

We are looking for a commercially experienced Principal Engineer with a strong background in delivering Java-based server-side solutions, to join our Engineering department. You will bring a depth of knowledge to deliver and integrate software to form a complete service experience across a wide variety of technologies and software designs, while supporting effective Agile delivery. Specifically, your technical knowledge will cover technologies such as Docker, PostaGres, Java (SpringBoot, Hibernate, Jackson, etc), Hibernate, cloud services (Azure/AWS) and database design.

Experience around Deployment, Debugging, Mobile App development, Testing, Scaling and Monitoring Micro-Services and scalable interconnected cloud networks is desired. You will be required to understand business requirements and work with both onshore and offshore agile teams to develop the appropriate software development components.

The Principal Engineer plays a critical role in providing organisational, and domain technical leadership, and strategic direction in their chosen field.

Your responsibilities as our Principal Engineer will include:

• Providing industry-leading expertise in their field of engineering, informing, and enabling the strategic objectives of Ordnance Survey
• Leading the software development of Ordnance Survey's most complex and critical projects, working with senior stakeholders across the business to develop roadmaps to address strategy
• Providing organisation-wide thought leadership, training, and direction
• Collaborating and influencing senior business stakeholders to shape, design and challenge roadmaps and objectives
• Collaborating with project and delivery managers to track the progress of technical delivery 
• Providing technical assurance and direction on all software development within their domain 
• Identifying and delivering effective training, proactively share best practices.
• Communicating goals and issues between technical teams, lead engineers, architects, delivery managers and stakeholders
• Providing line management to Engineers

What we’re looking for in our Principal Engineer:

• Demonstrable skills in Java, PostgreSQL, Database design and Cloud services (AWS, Azure)
• Industry-leading skills in chosen field
• Demonstrable ability to lead, coach and mentor engineering teams
• An excellent track record in collaborating with senior business stakeholders
• A proven track record in development of technical strategies
• A proven track record in leading complex software development projects
• A proven track record working with 3rd party suppliers in an agile environment
• A very good track record in influencing key business & technical stakeholders

Closing date: Sunday 28th August 2022

If you would like to be a part of this, click ‘apply’ now to be considered as our Principal Engineer - we’d love to hear from you!