Skyral Group
Principle Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead
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We Are Skyral:
We believe every decision maker can be empowered by technology. Skyral combines AI, leading edge simulation technology and world class expertise to transform the decision making experience. Our products and services enable faster and more confident decisions in a complex, unforgiving world. We deploy practical, intuitive and efficient solutions to governments and enterprises, delivering outstanding outcomes at the speed of relevance.
What We Do: (Omnia Training)
At Omnia Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.
Omnia Training is redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. Omnia Training is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.
This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering Omnia Training’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training.
Please note that this role will require onsite working in Warminster. Due to the nature of this role, Skyral can only consider applications from candidates who live in the UK and are eligible for SC clearance.
What We Are Looking For:
- 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.
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Key Technical Proficiencies:
- C++ and Go (Golang).
- Cloud Native Computing & SDLC (Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, ORAS, ArgoCD etc.)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across system boundaries.
- Ability to reason about performance, latency, and system behaviour.
- Familiarity with containerisation, Kubernetes-style environments, and distributed deployments.
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
- Leading a team of developers and the Skyral primary point of contact at Warminster.
- You will hold technical accountability across multiple concurrent projects, whilst ensuring the team delivers a fully working training system, not just components.
- Support the development solution architectures and turn these into implementation.
- Make technical decisions across modelling, integration, and platform usage.
- Step into problems across modelling challenges, integration issues, deployment blockers and guide engineering work across all disciplines.
- Ensure solutions are designed to be composable, reusable, and comply with platform-first principles.
- Act as the final escalation point for technical issues on site.
- Maintain momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.
Note: Please feel empowered to apply for this position, even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed above. Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for.
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What We Can Offer You: (Same For All Roles)
- Honest Conversations About Compensation - We are actively recruiting for various positions and considering candidates with diverse levels of experience. Skyral maintains a well defined salary range which a member of our Talent team will discuss with you during the first initial call.
- Unlimited Paid Holiday - At Skyral, we recognise the dedication and individual circumstances of our team members. We value and support the need to maintain a work-life balance, whether it’s taking time off during school holidays to be with your children, or simply having the flexibility to enjoy extended weekends without the stress of monitoring your remaining days off.
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance - Your health and wellbeing is our priority. Skyral is partnered with Bupa and from day one you are covered with a Level 3 policy. Additionally, if you wish to include family members or dependents on this policy, we offer a substantial discount.
- Enhanced Parental Leave - 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave.
- Everything Else - Company Pension, Company Swag, Employee Assistance Programme.
At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our talent team.
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