Technical Principal Consultant

Overview

Lead a delivery team as Technical Principal, owning the technical direction, architecture and collaboration across engagements while remaining hands-on.

What you'll do

• Maintain a clear understanding of the deployment architecture, build pipeline, and how changes reach production.
• Understand how all parts of the system work together.
• Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients.
• Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team.
• Ensure a release/branching strategy is in place.
• Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams.
• Ensure there is a technical vision for the team.
• Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production.
• Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned with EE technical values.
• Feed back to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team, good and bad.
• Recognize team members with the potential to grow into team leads.
• Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team.
• Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date.
• Keep an eye on the long-term consequences of architectural choices and remind others when necessary.
• Build good relationships with your team members.
• Act as a mentor when required.
• Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project.
• Build relationships across your client community.

What you'll need

• Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization.
• Deeply proficient in at least one programming language.
• Comfortable using other languages, with evidence of using multiple languages.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Hands-on experience with at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City, or Bamboo.
• Full stack development experience from the user interface through to data persistence.
• A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD.
• Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy.
• Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery.
• Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end-to-end system security.

Nice to have

• Performing an 'architect' role while retaining hands-on involvement.
• Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc.
• Infrastructure management technologies such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Details

• Location: India.