The Principal Engineer is an integral leadership team role for the European Hub, helping our clients architect and engineer their digital journey while playing a key role in growing AND Digital’s European business.
This role will be experienced in leading large and complex software engineering transformations and will have a breadth of understanding of many aspects of software engineering within large enterprises - from ways of working, methods, tooling, metrics, engineers underpinned by deep software engineering expertise (but not expected to be a hands on developer at this stage of the career).
The role will be involved in business development, architecting solutions, mentoring engineers and engineering teams, and staying current on the latest engineering concepts, frameworks and tooling.
What you will be doing
- Act as an engineering advisor for the portfolio of European clients - create artefacts, thought leadership, templates, case studies, AND Chats etc
- Support business development activities for European clients by participating the the BD process alongside club execs and client partnerships, helping with understanding the clients, framing solutions and supporting the shaping and sizing of work
- Stay current on engineering - trends, innovations and points of view that makes us stand out from the crowd
- Work across clients as demand dictates
- Provide engineering leadership, working closely with client stakeholders - CTO, CDO, CMO, CIO and Head of Engineering roles to developers and BA’s
- Advise and suggest engineering strategies to align with business vision across web, mobile, API, frameworks, cloud, platforms, data and increasingly genAI
- Prepare and deliver technology reviews and assessments of current software solutions, roadmaps and architecture
- Facilitate and deliver a software tooling and frameworks selection process appropriate for the clientDesign and shape reference architecture with an emphasis on software, data and genAI
- Propose software architectures to work alongside legacy and heritage applications to enable rapid deployment of customer benefiting functionality
- Design API integration strategies - enabling effective use of existing client technologies
- Recommend and select software engineering components, tooling, platforms and frameworks, taking into account client existing and planned investments
- Work within discovery and activation stages and teams to to pull together and make decisions on the tech aspects of the engagement
- Apply a commercial mindset throughout an engagement - taking a total cost of ownership view on your proposed technology recommendations
- Get hands on with the work, beyond leading and directing - producing key artefacts, technology roadmaps, onsite reviews, blueprints, strategy documents, solution selection templates, facilitation and delivery of technology workshops
Must-haves
- Credibility and comfort and to engage/challenge on engineering matters with highly technical client execs at the Head Of and CTO/CIO levels
- You are a highly credible software leader, an excellent communicator, with strong client and stakeholder management and consulting skills
- You speak Dutch fluently and have a strong network in the Netherlands
- Good professional services experience from a tech focused consultancy or an SI, with engagements across a range of clients and organisations
- You may also have been a head of engineering or a CTO in a modern and progressive tech heavy scaleup who now wants to move into professional services
- You enjoy leading, driving and ultimately landing the software architecture and engineering direction technology for your client amidst a complex set of risks or issues
- Focused technology specialism - you will have spent the majority of your career in a software engineering
- Good knowledge of digital delivery - particularly through Product, Technology and People change, backed with your own insights and POVs in technology
- Ability to persuade and influence client stakeholders with recommended direction
- Comfortable moving between various client assignments throughout your career within AND
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Last updated on Aug 1, 2024