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Principal Engineer [Development] X 2

UWE, Bristol

Location: Bristol
Salary: £44,263 to £48,350 + market allowance 5,796.04/annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 7th September 2023
Closes: 17th October 2023
Job Ref: R06456

This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in designing and delivering the solutions that will take the University’s student and staff experiences to the next level. Working with an exceptional team of Principal Engineers you will be supporting delivery leads and teams of engineers and analysts and collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the University.

Contributing technical expertise to procurement, project planning and solution delivery, you will act as a technical leader for application development teams ensuring development is aligned to the University’s 2030 Strategy and architectural roadmaps. 

You will work with modern technologies, with commercial products which require integration and support the development of in-house solutions to meet a specific business and user needs.

Your key responsibilities include:

  • contributing to enterprise architecture roadmaps in application development and software integration which support the university strategic aims
  • providing complex specialist technical consultancy in the areas of technology choice, software and system design, development frameworks and standards
  • maintaining and applying up to date, specialist knowledge of application development and software integration
  • identifying and promoting opportunities for innovation or use of emerging technologies to enable the strategic aims of the university.

IT Services is committed to delivering exceptional performance from the University’s information technology systems and invest in the people who design, develop and support them. IT Services works in a hybrid way offering the flexibility to work both on campus and at home depending on project or team needs.

You will be joining us during a time of major change to the Line of Business systems, a programme of cloud optimisation of our application estate and a large strategic programme of activity, so if you are looking for a varied role that will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop as a technical leader within a complex organisation, we would love to hear from you.

About you:

  • You will have excellent technical knowledge on the development of modern web applications and the software delivery lifecycle and an ability to provide mentoring and best practise guidance to engineers within delivery teams.
  • You enjoy working with the latest technologies, in particular designing, developing and overseeing the implementation of solutions which improve application performance and user experience.
  • You will be motivated to support the growth and development of our engineers and contribute to the development of high performing cross-functional teams
  • You will be an excellent communicator able to cultivate great working relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders and colleagues
  • You have experience of working with cloud-based PaaS technologies.
  • You have experience working in agile delivery teams, in particular improving and managing CI/CD tooling and services.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus.

Further information

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Angad Singh via email: angad.singh@uwe.ac.uk

There are 2 vacancies we are currently recruiting for. We are looking for 1 permanent full-time post and 1 fixed-term full-time post for 2 years supporting university to deliver a replacement Student Information System.

We may able to sponsor qualifying candidates for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. Please read our Skilled Worker Guidance to assess if you will be eligible to be sponsored under the criteria.

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