Principal Enterprise Engineer (Remote)

Principal Enterprise Engineer | Davies | Worldwide

Description

Principal Enterprise Engineer | Davies | Worldwide

Description

This Principal Enterprise Engineer role will drive our technology strategy, enhance developer experience, and promote best practices across multiple divisions. If successful, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our engineering culture, focusing on mergers and acquisitions due diligence (M&A DD), toolchain optimisation, maturing our critical DevSecOps practices, and serving as an engineering evangelist.

Additionally, you will be instrumental in talent acquisition efforts and enhancing our external engineering profile.

Key Responsibilities

M&A Due Diligence:

Lead technical due diligence for potential acquisitions, providing critical insights into the technology stack, architecture, scalability and any potential technical risks
Develop integration strategies to seamlessly merge acquired technologies and teams into the existing ecosystem and support immediate remediation of critical software engineering risks.

Developer Experience & Toolchain Optimisation

Identify and implement best-in-class Development tools, frameworks, and practices
Oversee the development and maintenance of a robust toolchain that enhances productivity and streamlines the SDLC.
Partner with development teams to continuously refine and improve coding standards, code review processes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Engineering Practices and DevSecOps:

Implement standardised engineering practice, and advocate for best practices across all divisions, focusing on secure, scalable, and high-quality software delivery.
Cross collaborate with other teams to promote DevSecOps principles, ensuring security is integrated into every stage of the development process.

Engineering Evangelism and Community Leadership:

Act as an engineering evangelist within the organisation, leading guilds focused on frontend, backend, API, testing, automation, and other engineering disciplines.
Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Mentor and guide engineers at all levels

Solution Design:

Design and develop cloud-first solutions within a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Collaborate across the business to create scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions.
Drive optimisation and cost-efficiency in multi-cloud deployments
Lead initiatives to improve cloud platform capabilities, ensuring the teams have required tools

Other:

Participate in industry events, build and maintain relevant networks / communities for the purpose of knowledge sharing, continuous learning as well as recruitment

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Extensive experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on full-stack development, DevSecOps, and engineering leadership.
Proven experience in M&A due diligence, with a solid understanding of evaluating technical assets and risks.
Strong knowledge of modern developer tools and toolchains, including CI/CD, version control, and automated testing frameworks.
Extensive experience in promoting and implementing DevSecOps practices within a complex, fast-paced, cloud-first environment.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers
Passionate about technology and innovation, with the ability to inspire and influence others
Experience of supporting the recruitment of top engineering talent
A degree in Comp Science, Engineering or related fields may be advantageous.

Benefits

Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof). Davies benefits and employee policies are ever-evolving. Currently some of our highlights include:

Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
25 days holiday (rising with service)
EAP with virtual GP
2 x paid volunteering days
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies
Fostering friendly and fertility support employer
Pension – matched contribution up to 5%
Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
Development, training, and professional qualifications where applicable

About Davies

We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.

We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.

Our global team of more than 6,500 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.

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