Lead technical direction for complex client engagements, shaping architecture and mentoring engineering teams. Bridge technical expertise and business needs while managing multi-stakeholder programs. Requires consultancy experience, strong technical presence, and proven leadership in software delivery.
Key Highlights
Key Responsibilities
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Nice to Have
Job Description
Principal Engineer
Software consultancy | Leeds, hybrid
Location: Leeds. One day a week on-site, occasional client travel.
Salary: £90,000 to £110,000
Clearance: SC held or eligible. Sponsorship available.
Process: Two stages. One held on-site in Leeds.
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The Role
A leadership seat at account level, not a senior engineering seat with a better title.
You would own the technical direction of a client engagement and run the people delivering it. Time splits between the client relationship and your teams. Hands-on coding is not the focus.
Briefs arrive loosely defined. Turning a vague problem into an architecture a team can build is most of the job.
Scope
- Own solution architecture across complex, multi-stakeholder programmes
- Act as the senior technical voice with client stakeholders and translate decisions for non-technical audiences
- Run teams. A lead here has three or four engineers. A principal has roughly double that, or several leads on larger programmes
- Weigh technical calls against cost and commercial reality, and flag where more value can be added
- Mentor engineers and shape internal engineering practice
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Essential
- Consultancy or client-facing delivery experience. The hard gate. Strong technologists have been turned down for lacking it
- Presence. Someone you would put in front of a client to lead a programme without hesitation
- Genuinely multi-language. Engineering judgement and architecture matter more than any one stack
- Credible across cloud, CI/CD, engineering and architecture
- Track record leading engineers and owning a programme technically
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Useful
- Kotlin, C#/.NET, TypeScript, React or Azure. None are dealbreakers
- Existing SC clearance
A lead ready for the step up will be considered, with salary pitched accordingly.
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