Principal Software Engineering; Azure and Integration

Salary: £60, per year

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including compute, networking, storage, integration services, platform security, and cost optimisation.
• Strong experience designing scalable, resilient, and secure technical architectures, with the ability to produce both high-level and detailed solution designs.
• Extensive knowledge of integration and API design patterns, including REST APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging, microservices, and orchestration.
• Expert understanding of modern software engineering principles and architecture patterns, including SOLID, Clean Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design, with sufficient .NET knowledge to guide technical direction.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, including SQL, data modelling, governance, and data flow design.
• Experience embedding security-by-design principles, covering identity and access management, data protection, compliance, and secure development practices.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, environment lifecycle management, observability, monitoring, telemetry, and performance optimisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical documentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively across both technical and business audiences.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops and modern cloud engineering tool chains.
• Experience working in product-led organisations and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and build alignment across multiple teams, domains, and business functions.
• Experience facilitating architecture forums, governance processes, design reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Understanding of AI-enabled tools and how they can enhance software engineering and delivery practices.
• Experience working with strategic technology partners and tooling providers, such as Microsoft and Datadog.

• Provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and engineering standards to evolve and scale the Field Platform across an Azure-based ecosystem.
• Lead through influence and technical expertise across squads, shaping engineering standards, best practices, and technical decision-making without direct line management.
• Coach, mentor, and support engineers, acting as a positive role model and helping teams develop their technical capabilities and ways of working.
• Support recruitment activities, including technical assessment and selection of engineering talent.
• Partner with Product and Engineering stakeholders to develop and influence product strategy, using technical insight to identify opportunities that deliver business value.
• Maintain a strong understanding of business strategy, performance, and engineering operating costs, ensuring teams remain focused on product outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Lead technical work streams, helping teams navigate architectural decisions, priorities, and delivery trade-offs to achieve successful outcomes.
• Coach teams on effective delivery practices, including iterative development, work breakdown, estimation, and early value delivery.
• Monitor team health and delivery metrics, proactively identifying issues, removing blockers, and driving continuous improvement across teams and the wider organisation.
• Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards for large-scale platforms and product suites.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions, ensuring alignment with wider enterprise architecture.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural governance, supporting high-quality, secure, and maintainable software delivery.
• Lead the evolution and adoption of engineering practices, principles, and communities, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Support major incidents and post-incident reviews, using insights to strengthen systems, teams, and engineering practices.
• Stay connected to industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, identifying opportunities that can be leveraged across the organisation.

• AI
• API
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Dev Ops
• Flow
• Support
• REST
• SQL
• Security
• microservices
• ASP.NET

We are Centrica, a family of brands and a team of 21,000 colleagues working to create a greener, fairer future by building an energy system that does not rely on fossil fuels. Technology is a core driver of our strategy, and our teams are modernising platforms, strengthening cyber and operational resilience, and advancing a product-led way of working. This is a UK-based hybrid role with occasional travel to site.

We offer a people-focused environment with flexible total rewards designed to support you and your family financially, physically, and emotionally. We are not a perfect place, but we are a people place, and we want you to bring your purpose, growth mindset, and ambition to help shape the future with us.

last updated 28 week of 2026