Tech Principal

The role is not a textbook checklist, We expect a collaborative approach to leading the

team.

Given this, we expect you to:

● Lead the team on approach and execution of solutions and establish a team wide

comprehension on the overall technical solution and direction.

● Drive Thought-Leadership on good engineering and architectural practices,

aligned to EE technical values

● Be an inspiration of innovation to the client and the team.

● Become a trusted and valued partner for senior client stakeholders like CIO,CTO

and Operations teams.

● Respect the other members of your team and recognize you don’t always know

best.

● Code! Be hands on, able and willing to contribute to development, we don’t

subscribe to the “post-technical” leadership style. However, don’t expect to be

coding all of the time.

● Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility.

● Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your

team (good and bad) and their capabilities.

● Recognize and mentor team members that have the potential to grow into future tech

leads

The successful candidate must have the following experience:

● Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization

● Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles

● 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 on continuous integration and continuous delivery

technologies

● Full stack development experience from user interface through to data

persistence, infrastructure automation, etc

● A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD

● Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of

different approaches to delivery

● Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security

The following exposure will also be looked on favorably:

● Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement

● Working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCloud, Azure etc.

● Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform