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An opportunity to play your part
Ready to step into a role where you can truly shape the future of engineering at scale? At Centrica, we’re looking for a Principal Engineer to take the lead in driving architecture, innovation and delivery across our technology landscape within our Product and Engineering Shared Services organisation. This is a brilliant opportunity to combine hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence guiding design decisions, mentoring talented engineering teams and working closely with stakeholders to build scalable, reliable solutions that power real customer outcomes.
If you thrive on solving complex challenges and elevating those around you, you’ll feel right at home here.
Location
UK-based hybrid role, Occasional travel to site.
Day to day
- Define and drive the technical vision, aligning engineering direction with business goals while shaping product and technology roadmaps
- Champion best engineering practices, fostering a collaborative culture and raising technical standards across teams
- Design and evolve scalable, high-performance architectures for complex, enterprise-level systems
- Mentor and guide engineers while remaining hands-on through coding, code reviews and technical leadership
- Partner with product, design and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, customer-focused outcomes
- Ensure reliability, security and continuous improvement, while translating complex technical concepts into clear business value
What are the must haves
- Provide clear technical leadership and guidance across architecture, design standards and implementation, acting as a trusted expert across the organisation
- Lead the design of high-level solutions and support teams in building scalable, modern services using best-in-class patterns
- Act as the go-to authority on architecture and engineering practices, setting direction while staying hands-on where it matters
- Mentor and develop engineers, aligning long-term technical direction with business goals and building strong, future-ready teams
- Collaborate seamlessly across product, engineering and business teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality solutions
- Tackle complex challenges with strong problem-solving skills, bringing data-driven thinking and objective reasoning to decision-making
- Communicate with impact, translating technical detail into clear business value and influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, confidently navigating ambiguity, context-switching and driving continuous improvement
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Core Competencies & Technical Skills (AI and emerging technology)
- Designs, integrates and operates AI-enabled solutions within enterprise environments, including prompt driven workflows, retrieval-augmented systems and AI agents.
- Applies structured evaluation, testing and monitoring practices to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure and compliant with organisational guardrails.
- Prepares and manages data used in AI workflows and takes responsibility for the responsible lifecycle of AI features from experimentation through deployment and continuous improvement.
What's in it for you?
- Enjoy a generous market salary, along with fantastic growth opportunities and a vibrant work environment!
- Added Car Allowance program to make your commute and adventures even better.
- Power up your pay with a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, surpassing the government's price cap!
- Secure your future with our comprehensive pension plan, designed for peace of mind.
- Elevate your health with our fully-funded company healthcare plan, prioritizing your well-being.
- Recharge with a generous 25-day holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and even purchase up to 5 extra days for extended relaxation!
- Experience unparalleled work-life balance with an exceptional selection of flexible benefits, from tech treats and eco-friendly car leases to travel insurance for your adventures!
Why should you apply?
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We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. When it comes to energy, no one does it like us. We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it. We’re made up of 12 different businesses, but united by our purpose as Centrica.
We’re energisers. Our journey to a greener, fairer future is powered by individuals like you. Through innovative green products, intelligent energy solutions and developing smarter ways to use and save energy, we’re not just part of the energy transition, we’re leading it.
Our commitment goes beyond sustainability. Together we’re bringing our collective energies to create positive change in our local communities. If you immerse yourself in our fight to change tomorrow, you might just find your why.
We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it. We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong. Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face. That’s why we have the UK’s best Carers Policy and are continually building our approach to flexibility and wellbeing.
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