Technical Principal Consultant

<p>Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile<br>channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to&nbsp;assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.</p>
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<h3><strong>About the job</strong></h3>
<p>The role of the <strong>Tech Principal</strong> is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfil and we expect the Tech Principal to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed. We expect Tech Principals to take a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings.</p>
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<h3><strong>Given this, we expect you to:&nbsp;</strong></h3>
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<li>Respect the other members of your team and recognize you don’t always know best.</li>
<li>Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team.</li>
<li>Be hands-on, able, and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time.</li>
<li>Encourage the team to be proactive, and give them responsibility.</li>
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<h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3>
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<li>Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture.</li>
<li>Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline.</li>
<li>Understand how you get changes into production.</li>
<li>Understand how all parts of the system work together.</li>
<li>Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients.</li>
<li>Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team.</li>
<li>Ensure you have a release/branching strategy in place.</li>
<li>Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams..</li>
<li>Ensure there is a technical vision for the team.</li>
<li>Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production.</li>
<li>Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned with EE technical values.</li>
<li>Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad).</li>
<li>Recognize team members that have the potential to grow into team leads.</li>
<li>Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team.</li>
<li>Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date.</li>
<li>Keep an eye on the long-term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary.</li>
<li>Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required.</li>
<li>Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project.</li>
<li>Build relationships across your client community.</li>
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<h3><strong>Technologies / Experience:</strong></h3>
<p>The successful candidate must have the following experience:</p>
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<li>Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization.</li>
<li>Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language.</li>
<li>Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages.</li>
<li>Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet.</li>
<li>Have hands-on experience with at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City, or Bamboo.</li>
<li>Full stack development experience from the user interface through to data persistence.</li>
<li>A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD.</li>
<li>Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy.</li>
<li>Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and saw a number of different approaches to delivery.</li>
<li>Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end-to-end system security.</li>
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<h3><strong>The following exposure will also be looked on favorably:&nbsp;</strong></h3>
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<li>Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement.</li>
<li>Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc.</li>
<li>Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform.</li>
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