Senior Lead Engineer With deep experience in software development and mastery of engineering practices throughout the software development life-cycle, the principal engineer acts as technical lead, solving complex technical challenges and collaborating across product groups to ensure the adoption of effective and consistent practices, tools and methodologies.

Common accountabilities:

• Has specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline or function. Provides expert guidance, promotes innovation and formally trains groups of less experienced professionals.​

• Has a broad understanding of the environment and uses it to improve efficiency, recommends solutions/best practices and influence the strategy of the department. Translates the strategy of the activity into a concrete action plan for the area, setting and monitoring targets for the team. ​

• Works independently, based on management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practices/quality resource.

Technical Excellence

• Building & defining best practices on code quality and security-safe code through non-functional requirements mastery, code reviews, coding guidelines, unit testing and code refactoring
• Ensure adoption and improvement of development tools & environment: promote existing ones, assess them and recommend improvements with the aim to encourage common tools to avoid duplications
• Promote practices linked to the methodologies in use (Agile, DevOps…)
• Ensure continuous technological watch

Continuous Improvement

• Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code
• Improve the technical aspect of the project delivery and provide recommendations for engineering process improvement

Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing

• Actively contributing to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members (junior members) technical coaching and mentoring (give an answer, provide feedback)
• Contributing to PE community events
• Defining training content and/or delivering training (to evolve per level)