Lead Front-End Engineer – Principal Consultant

Salary: £108,000 – £120,000 per year

As a team, we transform our client’s businesses using a combination of strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices. We do this at internet scale – driving innovation, and enriching people’s lives. Our skills and talent enable PA’s purpose of creating positive a human future in a technology driven world.

As part of our Digital team, you’ll work alongside colleagues from across PA – delivering transformative digital solutions to today’s most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome. We’re an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner.

As a Principal consultant you can demonstrate experience working within a fast-paced multi-disciplinary digital environment and can evidence your ability to deal with large amounts of information, make decisions effectively, and guide engineers to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

You will have established yourself as a trusted technology leader, from successful experience building business pipelines through to complex engineering delivery which may have included frontend and backend web or mobile development (e.g..NET, Azure, HTML5 and JavaScript), solution architecture, infrastructure engineering and quality assurance.

You can evidence how you have identified new revenue opportunities and played a role in converting these into business growth as well as having delivered engineering projects of significant value.

You’re commercially savvy – with clear experience delivering effective estimation and working with cross discipline teams to get to the heart of a solution, articulating the engineering elements clearly to internal folk but critically, to clients too.

You’re an experienced line manager and mentor – actively interested in supporting engineers in both their career development and team contribution. You’ll get directly involved in recruitment – ensuring we continue to enjoy success by bringing on the very best people.

You have clear ideas on how things might be done and want to join a company where doing things the right way is a principle we strive to achieve daily. You inspire others to constructively test your position through open dialog and multi-disciplinary involvement to reach the right answer.

You’re obsessed with the excellence of approach, architecture and implementation. Standards matter a lot. If something isn’t right, you are not going to let it slide – the quality of the product or service and the resultant user experience is fundamentally important to how you approach your work.

You’re a self-starter with a strong entrepreneurial streak – able to prioritize your time effectively and build relationships across the Digital practice.

And finally – you’re not afraid of sitting down with clients and working solutions through with them in a highly collaborative and open way.

You can expect to be involved in all the following:

* Developing detailed and compelling responses to new business opportunities alongside colleagues from other areas of our digital practice and the wider PA capabilities

* Developing our relationships with clients, and industry partners, so that we can identify areas where we can provide additional value to their businesses.

* Developing and mentoring teams (in-house and on client site) to solve for complex technology needs and deliver the right outcomes; including technology selection and hands-on delivery where appropriate.

* Shaping and growing our Digital Engineering and DevOps practice, culture & people alongside our Partner Sponsors and Practice Lead