Principal Engineer

Job description

Role: Principal Engineer

Location: Hybrid (Tunbridge Wells, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Bristol and Bournemouth)

Salary: £100,000+

We have an exciting opportunity for two Principal Engineers to join a large UK-based health and insurance organisation. This is a fantastic chance to work in a product-led operating model, where teams are aligned to value streams and structured to take initiatives from idea to delivery with minimal hand-offs. The organisation is focused on building a Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, and supported by a significant .NET estate and Azure services. The mission is to re-platform the business to improve efficiency, flexibility, and ultimately deliver better health outcomes for millions of members.

Responsibilities

• Lead a product engineering team, taking ownership of delivery outcomes aligned with the transformation roadmap.
• Contribute to the Engineering Leadership team, helping to set and deliver the engineering strategy.
• Be hands-on with code, including reviewing pull requests and ensuring engineering best practices are followed by both internal and third-party engineers.
• Inspire excellence, improving employee engagement, performance, and wellbeing.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and business experts to ensure delivery quality and expectations are met.
• Assess new technology solutions and ensure non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, resilience, GRC compliance) are met.
• Encourage collaboration and product ownership across developers and testers.
• Support a shift-left approach to secure, quality, and tested code.
• Lead in a multi-vendor environment, providing guidance and direction to delivery teams.
• Improve core DORA metrics and optimise flow across systems and processes.

Requirements

• Proven experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Expertise in Salesforce and its ecosystem, including building scalable business solutions and integrating with multiple applications.
• Experience with Azure, .NET, ADO pipelines, and React web applications is highly desirable.
• Ability to design and deliver complex solutions on time and budget, accountable for outcomes rather than just output.
• Experience managing high-volume, critical application estates, ideally in financial or regulated sectors.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across multiple business domains.
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their business potential.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and requirements into technical design.
• Experience working in Agile environments with a focus on optimising flow across the SDLC.
• Prior experience in product-centric organisations is preferred.

What We Offer

The organisation values its people and offers a comprehensive rewards package, including:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Leeds

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

14-01-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English