Principal Engineer

Join Primark’s Technology team as a Principal Engineer to lead technical vision, enforce best practices, and drive high‑performance engineering culture.

What You’ll Do As a Principal Engineer

• Define and drive the technical vision, ensuring engineering best practices, roadmap alignment, automation, and pragmatic decision‑making that accelerates delivery and improves software quality.
• Establish engineering excellence frameworks across observability, monitoring, resilience, reliability, and agile delivery, including Kanban workflows, WIP management, and transparency across teams.
• Strengthen delivery performance by managing technical debt, improving engineering metrics, and overseeing partner and vendor contributions to ensure seamless technology operations.
• Foster a high‑performing engineering culture through coaching, developing talent, enabling cross‑functional collaboration, and building communities of practice.
• Champion governance, security, and compliance, promoting accountability in Security, GDPR, IT controls, business continuity, and disaster recovery practices.
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, providing leadership and staying ahead of industry trends to ensure best‑in‑class technology capabilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong understanding of engineering principles, system design concepts, and modern software development practices.
• Experience using the Atlassian Suite or equivalent engineering and collaboration tooling.
• Working knowledge of scalable Agile SDLCs, distributed systems, and contemporary delivery methodologies; familiarity with high‑availability architectures, disaster recovery processes, and business continuity planning.
• Proven track record leading teams through enterprise‑grade software delivery and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to influence at all levels.

Benefits

• Health care, pension, and potential bonus.
• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays; option to purchase 5 additional days.
• Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

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