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Principal Engineer- Java

Principal Engineer (Java)
Principal Engineer (Java) opportunity within well-established Tech company.

What you will be rewarded with:

We will count on you to:

Lead distributed teams of skilled and experienced engineers to build, enhance and maintain these business critical apps
Set the technical direction and roadmap for these applications - partner with other IT and business stakeholders to understand the capabilities required, and then work with the development teams to design and implement appropriate solutions
Act as a recognised subject matter expert on these apps and the problem domain
Provide thought leadership around how technology can be deployed in new and innovative ways to provide a source of competitive advantage to Marsh
Be a hands on leader - manage coach, develop and support team members in problem solving and solution delivery. Lead by example, including getting into the code on a regular basis and demonstrate best practice coding. Make no mistake, this role will require you to be 'on the tools'
Ensure high levels of automation and quality in delivery - drive the adoption of a DevOps culture and shift-left mindset amongst the teams
Work with other technology groups and stakeholders across to ensure alignment with company wide tooling, standards and processes

What you need to have:

Experience in building and leading distributed technology teams working on highly complex technical problems
Experience of modern application architectures, and in development environments and cultures focused on achieving a very high degree of re-use
A broad and deep range of experience in the tech industry; across technologies and business problems.
Good knowledge across a range of modern technology tools, languages and processes. For reference, the core technologies, tools and methods we use on these apps include:
- Java 1.8 +; Spring framework/Spring boot
- ORM / Hibernate; MongoDB / PostgreSQL / Oracle
- html/javascript/Ajax style frameworks
- TDD (Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma); BDD (Cucumber); Selenium
- Nexus; Docker; Kubernetes; JMeter; Blackduck; Whitehat;
- AWS
- Linux; VM Architectures

But your attitude and general experience are more important to us than knowledge of specific technologies.

Experience of software development methods including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD
Agile/incremental mindset for system design
Comfortable working in a matrix organisation, with distributed teams from different cultures

What makes you stand out:

Your proven track record in building and leading teams to deliver world class technology platforms
Your deep technical expertise with a range of technologies and business problems. You have been around the block a few times, and there's very little you haven't come across before in one shape or form.
You can rapidly relate business (insurance) concepts, to technical and system design concepts that can support and deliver improved business outcomes
You're a natural leader - someone that other colleagues want to work with
You can simplify complexity. You can rapidly grasp complex technical and business problems; identify and design elegant and simple solutions; and communicate the problem and the solution succinctly and clearly to a range of audiences
Great communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in a distributed environment, with an ability to form great working relationships across teams, locations, and time-zones.
Your strong influencing skills and the ability to educate, coach and guide teams and colleagues
Credible at all levels of the organisation: can communicate effectively at C-suite level, and with on-the ground engineers and development teams

Candidates must have EU Citizenship, stamp1G or stamp4