Principal Engineer – Enablement and Assurance

Posting date:	16 October 2025
Salary:	£77,900 per year
Additional salary information:	You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £21,700. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 October 2025
Location:	Croydon
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	432807/1

Summary

We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work alongside hundreds of engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies, creating and maintaining some of the most critical public services in the United Kingdom and transforming how we use data and technology to improve these. We are responsible for designing, building and supporting solutions to help people prove their identity or apply for visas. You could also be working on critical IT systems that support policing and counter terrorism and protect UK borders. 

As a Principal Engineer - Enablement & Assurance your work will be focussed on enabling, assuring and aligning engineering across assigned business areas, often working with a range of engineering teams on practices, standards and quality. You will be forming, facilitating and be a key member of governance boards for both engineering and architecture.

Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal engineers in your area, you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate and endorsed and will advise senior stakeholders to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis. Your remit will be across the engineering function and will involve working closely with Architects and other professions.

Tools and Technologies we use:

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:

• Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform

• Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular 

• Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra 

• DevOps/Platforms: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform

• AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI

What you will do

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Surveying, analysing and improving technical practices across multiple engineering teams, both supplier and internal teams to guide engineering practices towards standards and best practices.

• Providing technical leadership and guidance to non-technical stakeholders to support high-quality engineering, cost-effective and timely delivery.

• Facilitating and participating in engineering boards to provide technical governance and contribute to Technical Design Authority meetings to ensure that designs are practical, scalable and deliverable.

• Fostering collaboration across teams and external suppliers to promote alignment on shared technical solutions, best practices and standards and driving consistency across business areas.

• Developing and facilitating technical developer communities.

Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

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