Principal Engineer - Platform Enablement

Centrica

Full-time Engineering
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Location
windsor, england, United-Kingdom
Posted
June 16, 2026

Job Description

The Principal Software Engineer provides the technical leadership, architectural vision, and engineering standards required to evolve and scale the Field Platform. The role ensures that our platform delivers a unified, performant, secure and resilient experience that enables thousands of field colleagues to work efficiently, safely and effectively every day.

The role is expected to use automation, data and AI enabled tooling to reduce repetitive work, improve code quality, speed up development cycles and strengthen reliabilityโ€”while retaining full human accountability for technical judgement and decisions.

Day to day

  • Define & evolve the Field Platform architecture: Set the long-term architecture, patterns, and guardrails for Field platform services to ensure scalability, resilience, interoperability, and a unified experience
  • Drive consolidation and simplification of the estate: Lead the rationalisation of the platform into a coherent plat...