Principal Engineer - Integration Services

The role

The Principal Engineer - Integration Services will establish and lead the Integration Services capability across Internal Products. You will own the technical direction, engineering capability, people leadership, delivery and operational performance of shared integration and engineering services.

What you will do

• Defining the technical direction for integration services across Internal Products.
• Establishing principles, standards and reusable patterns for enterprise integration.
• Developing a clear strategy for shared integration capabilities.
• Identifying opportunities to simplify integration architecture and reduce duplication.
• Providing technical leadership on significant integration decisions.
• Ensuring integration approaches consider security, resilience, scalability, observability, operability and long-term maintainability.
• Working with Architecture and senior engineering leaders to align integration direction.
• Defining and building reusable integration services and engineering capabilities.
• Establishing clear ownership for shared services.
• Leading and developing the engineers within Integration Services.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in a Principal Engineer, senior engineering leadership or comparable technical leadership role.
• Strong experience designing, building and operating enterprise integration capabilities at scale.
• Deep understanding of integration architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, messaging, data flows and distributed systems.
• Experience establishing reusable engineering services or shared platform capabilities across multiple teams.
• Experience defining technical standards, engineering patterns or platform strategies across organisational boundaries.
• Experience leading significant transformation programmes involving multiple platforms, teams and integrations.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS ecosystems and integrating them with internally developed applications.
• Experience leading and developing senior engineers and technical specialists.
• Strong experience influencing teams and senior stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Experience identifying and addressing duplicated capabilities, technical debt and fragmented ownership across complex technology estates.
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, security and operational excellence.

Nice to have

• preferably AWS
• Experience with quality engineering, test automation, CI/CD and engineering productivity practices would be advantageous.
• Experience establishing new teams, capabilities or operating models would be highly advantageous.

Benefits

• generous annual leave
• medical cover
• inclusive parental leave packages
• subsidised gym memberships
• opportunities to give back to the community

About the company

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