1st Central
Principal Engineer
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At 1st Central, everything starts with our people.
As one of the UK’s leading motor and home insurers, we use smart technology, data and great service to make insurance fast, fair and simple for over 1.4 million customers. We’re proud to create an environment where people feel supported, trusted and able to grow - whether that’s developing new skills, taking on fresh challenges or making a real impact every day. If you’re looking for a role where you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
We're looking for a Principal Engineer for this hands-on technical role making use of .Net and Azure where you’ll be providing technical architecture leadership for a set of Focus technical products and services. The role will involve taking responsibility for determining the Focus technical direction in collaboration with Architecture and ensuring alignment to the overall Focus architecture principles following SOLID principles for maintainability and scalability.
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You’ll collaborate with solution architecture to give clarity and technical direction to engineers who will build solutions against the agreed designs. Whilst not having any direct people management responsibilities, you'll provide support, coaching and mentoring to Focus engineers to ensure they deliver to the required quality and integrity.
Core Skills
We’re looking for to succeed in the role:
- A creative problem solver who thrives on creating simplicity out of complexity.
- A passion for people and creating environments that enable others to flourish.
- Resilient and comfortable prioritising in demanding situations.
- Highly trustworthy and able to operate with integrity and discretion at all times.
- Energetic and proactive, will enjoy motivating others with your “can do, will do” attitude.
- Able to operate with minimal brief, and a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
- Ability to bring together multiple different views and perspectives to create agreed designs and solutions.
- Hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Engineering roles
- Beneficial - Azure certified
- Beneficial - Other cloud platform certification
- Good understanding of a service-based approach to technology, including component, service oriented and event driven architectures.
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Flexible Hybrid Working
We’re big on flexible hybrid working. Our teams are based across Salford Quays (Manchester), Haywards Heath (West Sussex), and Guernsey. We primarily work from home but value collaboration, so we come together in person to keep ideas flowing, typically once a month. Prefer being in the office more often? That works for us too.
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