Principal Engineer

hackajob; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

hackajob is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead a high-performing engineering team in an exciting product-led environment. You will play a crucial role in shaping the engineering strategies and delivering innovative solutions using Salesforce, Azure, and .NET while ensuring minimal hand-offs in the delivery process. Flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional growth within the organization are available.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building and leading high performing engineering teams.
• Expertise in Salesforce ecosystem and Azure services.
• Experience in Agile environments with a focus on design and delivery of complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Leading a product engineering team to meet delivery outcomes.
• Setting and delivering engineering strategy.
• Ensuring quality and secure code within a multi-vendor environment.

Skills

Leadership

Salesforce

Azure

Agile Methodology

Stakeholder Management

Education

Experience in Engineering or related field

Job description

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hackajob is collaborating with AXA to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

We have an exciting opportunity for two new Principal Engineers to join us!

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, where all our teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand-offs. We're focused on building out our Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, but involving a significant .NET estate and use of Azure services. Our mission is to re-platform our business, providing efficiency, flexibility, and more than anything else, better health outcomes for our millions of members in the UK.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. As a leadership role there is an expectation of travel to London 1-2 times per month, and our Head Office of Tunbridge Wells which you’ll travel to 1-2 times per quarter. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a product engineering team, taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our transformation roadmap
• Working within the Engineering Leadership team to set the engineering strategy and delivering on it
• Spending a large amount of your time being hands-on with the code, e.g. reviewing pull requests and ensuring best practices are followed by both full time and third-party engineers
• Inspiring excellence in our teams and driving improvements in employee engagement, performance, and wellbeing
• Representing engineering in your teams, working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Business subject matter experts, to ensure our business commitments are delivered with quality and to expectation
• Assessing new technology solutions
• Ensuring our non-functional requirements are met regarding performance, scalability, resilience, and GRC requirements (Information security, risk, industry regulation compliance)
• Helping to encourage collaboration and product ownership across developers and testers
• Ensuring continual shift of secure, quality and tested code activity left
• Working in a multi-vendor environment, providing direction and support to the delivery teams
• Improving our core DORA metrics and ensuring optimal flow through our systems and processes
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience building and leading high performing engineering teams
• Expertise in Salesforce and it’s ecosystem, building business solutions using Salesforce and scaling them in large enterprises, integrating Salesforce based services with multiple different applications and architectures
• Experience with Azure and .NET services, ADO pipelines, and React web applications is a big plus
• Ability to design and deliver complex solutions to time and budget, being accountable for outcomes not output
• Proven experience in being responsible for application estates that manage high volumes delivering critical business value, with experience of doing this in the financial services sector a plus
• Strong stakeholder management across a variety of business domains
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design
• Experience working in Agile environments and a deep understanding of how to ensure optimum flow of work through the full SDLC
• Prior experience working in a product-centric organisation preferred
  
  

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What We Offer

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Gym benefits
  
  

To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to [e-mail].

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Who We Are

At AXA Health, we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. We’re transforming our business by developing easy, efficient, digital experiences for our customers. We’re a collective of specialists passionate about helping our members flourish, whether that’s individuals and families, small businesses or huge corporates.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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