Principal Engineer & Technical Delivery Lead – UK Onsite

Skyral; Warminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary discussion during call

Unlimited holiday

Private medical & dental insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Pension & wellbeing

Job summary

Skyral is seeking a seasoned software engineering leader to head a multidiscipline development team in Warminster, onsite. You will own technical accountability across parallel projects, translating architectures into production systems and driving platform-first, composable solutions across modelling, integration and deployment.

The role demands strong collaboration with MOD content providers and a focus on end-to-end delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead a software development team.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to engage with MOD customer and commercial content providers.
• Ability to translate architecture into working systems.
• Ability to unblock teams across modelling, integration, and platform issues.
• A solid understanding of modelling and simulation principles.
• A strong grounding in distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of developers and serving as the Skyral primary point of contact at Warminster.
• Holding technical accountability across multiple concurrent projects, whilst ensuring the team delivers a fully working training system, not just components.
• Supporting the development solution architectures and turning them into implementation.
• Making technical decisions across modelling, integration, and platform usage.
• Stepping into problems across modelling challenges, integration issues, deployment blockers and guiding engineering work across all disciplines.
• Ensuring solutions are designed to be composable, reusable, and comply with platform-first principles.
• Acting as the final escalation point for technical issues on site.
• Maintaining momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.

Skills

Team leadership

Multidisciplinary engineering

MOD engagement

Architecture-to-implementation

Modelling & simulation

Distributed systems design

Debugging & troubleshooting

Performance & latency focus

Tools

C++

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

ORAS/ArgoCD

Containerisation

Job description

Skyral is seeking a seasoned software engineering leader to head a multidiscipline development team in Warminster, onsite. You will own technical accountability across parallel projects, translating architectures into production systems and driving platform-first, composable solutions across modelling, integration and deployment.

The role demands strong collaboration with MOD content providers and a focus on end-to-end delivery.