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Hybrid (London, England, United Kingdom)
6 month rolling contract
London - 2 days onsite
Job Purpose
The Principal Lead provides technical leadership across six engineering capabilities: SAP, DevOps, Domain Services, Storefront, iOS and Android. Working between the Capability Leads and the Architecture team, they provide hands-on technical leadership and design support as a full-stack engineer, and are accountable for raising engineering standards and defining, building and embedding best-of-breed practices that make secure software development and built-in observability the default. They also act as the senior point of technical escalation, taking the lead to resolve issues where Engineers, Technical Leads or Capability Leads are stuck.
The Principal Lead will also lead the introduction of agentic development practices across the engineering organisation, moving teams beyond AI code completion towards AI agents that plan, build, test and review changes under clear human oversight....