Senior Manager - Principal Software Engineer

Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year

Requirements:

• Software engineering experience with demonstrable progression to senior technical roles
• Extensive full-stack development expertise including backend (.NET Core, C#) and frontend (Angular or React, TypeScript, JavaScript)
• Proven experience in delivering enterprise-scale cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Strong track record in managing and coaching engineering teams (minimum 3+ years in Tech Lead roles)
• Experience with AI-native software delivery and specification-driven development, including the use of AI-assisted engineering tools, automated quality assurance, modern testing practices, and highly automated CI/CD workflows within enterprise-scale environments
• Experience in microservices architecture, distributed systems, and RESTful API development and integration
• Experience in Git, GitHub, and modern CI/CD practices including automated testing and deployment pipelines
• Hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices
• Strong database design, data modelling, and development expertise across relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL platforms such as Azure CosmosDB
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical execution with people management and product accountability
• Proven problem-solving skills and analytical thinking with ability to tackle complex technical challenges
• Strong decision-making capabilities with ability to evaluate trade-offs and make pragmatic choices under pressure
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks and architectures (e.g. Microsoft Agent Framework and/or equivalent frameworks in other languages)
• Experience architecting for scalability, performance, security, and operational excellence
• Experience with Databricks, data engineering, or analytics platforms
• Familiarity with Node.js, and Typescript backend development
• Knowledge of modern frontend build tools, CSS frameworks, and responsive design principles
• Background in professional services, consulting, or client-facing technical delivery
• Contribution to open-source projects or active participation in engineering communities
• Relevant associate or expert-level certifications in Microsoft Azure, Databricks, modern JavaScript frameworks or full-stack development

Responsibilities:

• Provide accountability and engineering direction for a portfolio of products and delivery teams
• Lead by example through hands-on technical contribution and solving critical technical challenges
• Establish, evolve, and enforce engineering standards, coding practices, quality gates, and governance frameworks that enable safe, scalable, and effective AI-native software delivery
• Champion engineering excellence across the full software delivery lifecycle, driving secure-by-design development, comprehensive observability, modern testing practices, resilient deployment strategies, and operational excellence at scale
• Ensure solutions are designed and delivered to enterprise-grade standards, embedding security, performance, resilience, scalability, and operational readiness from inception through to production
• Represent engineering in portfolio intake and triage discussions
• Collaborate with solution architects to ensure solutions align with broader architectural patterns and standards
• Champion and scale AI-native, specification-driven development practices across engineering teams
• Establish and embed the use of standards, frameworks and tooling for AI-augmented development across SDLC (e.g. define standards for prompt engineering, AI code review practices, and human-in-the-loop workflows)
• Champion the adoption of GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and other approved AI coding assistants as core development tools
• Drive technical innovation through proof-of-concepts and evaluating emerging AI engineering tools and platforms
• Demonstrate measurable improvements in delivery velocity, quality, or efficiency through AI adoption based on production use cases
• Coach and develop engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence, learning, and AI adoption
• Foster collaboration across teams, breaking down silos and promoting knowledge sharing

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• API
• Angular
• Azure
• Backend
• C#
• CI/CD
• Claude Code
• Cloud
• Copilot
• CSS
• Databricks
• DevOps
• Frontend
• Git
• GitHub
• Support
• JavaScript
• Kanban
• Network
• NoSQL
• PostgreSQL
• React
• SQL
• Security
• TypeScript
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• NodeJS

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last updated 36 week of 2026