Technical Principal Consultant

The role

The Tech Principal ensures technical responsibilities are covered and takes a collaborative approach to leading a team. You will manage deployment architecture, build pipelines, and technical communication while contributing to development.

What you will do

• Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture
• Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline
• Understand how you get changes into production
• Understand how all parts of the system work together
• Facilitate technical communication with other teams
• Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team
• Ensure you have a release/branching strategy in place
• Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams
• Ensure there is a technical vision for the team
• Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production

Required qualifications

• Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization
• Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language
• Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages
• Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Have hands-on experience with at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City, or Bamboo
• Full stack development experience from the user interface through to data persistence
• A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD
• Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy
• Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and saw a number of different approaches to delivery
• Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end-to-end system security

Nice to have

• Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement
• Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc.
• Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform

About the company

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients. They are recognised for their leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods.