PrincipalSoftwareEngineer

As a Principal Software Engineer you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technology landscape and leading the development of cutting-edge software solutions at RAC. This role will have you perform solution architecture and design of new products, platforms and features whilst providing solution direction and advice to delivery teams. Leveraging your deep expertise across multiple domains e.g. Cloud Technologies, development or application security you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable software products and provide technical leadership and guidance, coaching and mentoring to other engineers across the organisation. This is a 2 year maximum term opportunity to start. **What will you be doing?** * Owning and managing the engineering technology stack whilst also driving innovation in a safe scalable and sustainable manner. * Shaping and maturing the product, platform and tooling tech stack, by governing solutions and providing architectural guardrails that support innovation, resilience and long-term scalability. * Architect and document software solutions that solve business problems and align with strategic capability and technology direction, while developing and testing these solutions end-to-end across cloud infrastructure, front-end, back-end and integration using secure, repeatable patterns. * Supporting project and delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle to enhance solution delivery, and manage cloud resources to optimise performance, availability, and cost. * Contribute to the development of engineering standards, patterns and best practices, and support engineers in successfully adopting and maintaining them. * Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders and collaborate with engineering leadership to set engineering standards, actively promote and present these standards, and demonstrate innovation in technology utilisation. **What are we looking for in you?*