Principal Engineer - Platform Enablement Squad

## Principal Engineer - Platform Enablement Squad Apply locations:
Windsor time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 8 Days Agotime left to apply:
End Date:
May 25, 2026 (5 days left to apply) job requisition :
R0083476
** Join us, be part of more.
** We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential.

That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.
** Centrica, Technology is a core driver of how we deliver our strategy.
** You’ll join a team modernising our platforms, strengthening cyber and operational resilience, and advancing a product-led way of working that brings engineers, data specialists and business experts together to deliver meaningful outcomes ’re scaling automation and AI from proof-of-concept into real, end-to-end change - improving customer journeys, reducing cost-to-serve, accelerating delivery, and building the digital foundations that underpin everything from energy trading and risk to field operations and critical infrastructure.

If you want to work on complex, high-impact problems using modern engineering practices, and help build reusable platforms that will shape how Centrica operates over the next decade, this is the place to do it.
** An opportunity to play your part
** The Principal Software Engineer provides the technical leadership, architectural vision, and engineering standards required to evolve and scale the Field Platform. The role ensures that our platform deliver a unified, performant, secure and resilient experience that enables thousands of field colleagues to work efficiently, safely and effectively every day.

The role is expected to use automation, data and AI enabled tooling to reduce repetitive work, improve code quality, speed up development cycles and strengthen reliability—while retaining full human accountability for technical judgement and decisions.
** Day to day**
* ** Define & evolve the Field Platform architecture:
** Set the long-term architecture, patterns, and guardrails for Field platform services to ensure scalability, resilience, interoperability, and a unified experience
* ** Drive consolidation and simplification of the estate:
** Lead the rationalisation of the platform into a coherent platform, reducing duplication, technical debt, maintenance costs, and operational complexity
* ** Shape cross-domain technical design decisions:
** Partner across Product, Architecture, Supply Chain, Scheduling, and Field Operations to drive consistent data models, integration patterns, UX principles, and standards across all field workflows
* ** Identify and deliver new digital capabilities:
** Work with product and business leaders to define new capabilities (such as supply chain, quoting, workflow optimisation, knowledge management) to enhance safety, compliance, customer experience, and productivity
* ** Establish engineering excellence across teams:
** Champion high engineering standards including clean architecture, CI/CD automation, observability, testing strategies, release processes, telemetry, performance tuning, and secure-by-design principles
* ** Lead platform performance, reliability & offline capability:
** Ensure the environment performs reliably in challenging field conditions (such as poor signal or offline mode), with focus on failover behaviours, caching, performance profiling, and user trust
* ** Influence and steward Security, SRE, Quality and Platform-wide capabilities:
** Shape quality, resilience, and security strategies across teams—ensuring teams adopt shift-left testing, strong security hygiene, consistent observability, and reliable operational processes
* ** Improve how work is done:
** Continuously identify opportunities to automate, simplify, reduce cycle time, improve developer experience, adopt new…