Principal Engineering Consultant

What we need

We’re looking for a Principal Consultant with a strong background in technology, proficient in multiple languages, tools and technologies.   You will have experience of actively identifying opportunities with clients and networks while collaborating with teams through pre-sales, discovery, and proof of concept to secure new work.

You’ll be comfortable leading teams, as well as holding conversations with clients up to and including C-Level.

We need someone who gets a kick out of working in a fast-paced environment, potentially overseeing more than one project, and acting as technical oversight for those projects.

About you

You’re an excellent spoken and written communicator, comfortable working with senior and C-level stakeholders. You lead by example: you’re pragmatic and productive but also creative. You’ve got the beans to motivate teams of all sizes and manage development plans for yourself and others, knowing which areas to focus on to keep things moving. 

You actively shape/own a domain community, whether that’s blogging, events or webinars. You have an entrepreneurial mindset that means you look for opportunities wherever you think you can dig them up, and you take pride in leaving everything you touch better than you found it. 

Matching your values with ours

Our values affect everything we do – and yours will too. So we’ll need you to have integrity (of course) and be a passionate, approachable pragmatist who’s always looking for ways to shake things up.

Your responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities including:

• Leading people and building high-performing teams that leverage technology to deliver critical business priorities and solve complex problems for our clients
• Taking ownership of engagement and client relationships
• Helping clients create solutions to their business challenges leveraging all of our practices
• Technical and practical input into the Daemon Way — our overall engagement model
• Shaping engagements from a team, skills, requirements and commercial perspective, working closely with the resourcing function to resource those people.
• Defining work packages and planning for success
• Communicating complex technical problems in simple non-technical terms
• Leading one or more teams to deliver what the client needs
• Building and managing a network of relationships at relevant levels
• Taking an active role in identifying opportunities at existing clients, new clients, or within your own network
• Collaborating with Account Directors, the sales team and other SMEs, through pre-sales, discovery and proof of concept, to win new pieces of work
• Identifying and generate new client opportunities, moving client dialogue from a discussion of ideas to scoping work
• Managing stakeholder relationships, supporting Governance, and ensuring we deliver against expectations
• Supporting teams on challenging engagements and/or with challenging clients — our clients are demanding and we exceed expectations
• End to end engagement ownership
• People manager and Mentorship and development of less experienced consultants
• Proactive solution development for both clients and Daemon — if you see something not working, we expect you to step up
• Being visible as a leader in Daemon and in the industry
• Building technical strategies for Daemon and our clients
• Community leadership, building communities within Daemon and spearheading technical innovation

Your experience

• Deep experience in one or more technical domains and/or market verticals
• You’ll be comfortable leading teams from a technical and delivery perspective
• A strong understanding of practice principles and engagements, ways of working, best practices, leadership skills, risk management, stakeholder management 
• Experience of technical strategy and innovation with domain expertise in at least one of our key areas - Cloud, Data/AI/ML, Engineering & Delivery Excellence.
• Experience in end to end execution of commercial agreements, understanding appropriate legislation, risks & standards & taking ownership of proposals.
• Strong engineering principals that can be applied across technologies
• Writing and delivering against statement of works
• Implementing technical solutions for clients
• Demonstrating exceptional communication skills as a consultant
• Strong stakeholder management at all levels
• Implementing development projects in production
• Managing one or more team(s) of mid-level to senior engineers
• Experience of line or people management 

Tooling and tech

You can show good knowledge and skills in but not limited to:

• AWS, Azure, (one of them or a combination)
• Agile best practice (to a high level)
• A strong understanding of development lifecycle best practice
• Java (to a high level)/Python/Go
• A strong understanding of engineering principles and projects
• Containerisation
• DevOps practices
• Data Engineering

Who you’ll work with

Internally, you’ll be assigned a mentee to help develop with your experience. On projects, you’ll be working with senior consultants and consultants, who’ll help you transform tech for our clients.

Benefits

We pay competitive salaries with some great benefits (which we’re always reviewing):

• 25 days paid annual leave
• Competitive pension contributions
• Private healthcare (extended to family members), including mental health cover,  plus gym discounts
• Dental cover (extended to family members)
• Death in service policy (4 x annual salary)
• Electric vehicle incentive scheme 
• Certification bounties (bonuses for completing tech certification)
• Hybrid Working

More about Daemon life

We’ve been powering digital transformations since 2007, when Calum Fitzgerald and Steve Bennett first founded Daemon Solutions. Now, we’re up to 160+ Daemonites, beavering away on the tech visions that’ll make all the difference for our clients – who include quite a few names you’ll know. 

We live and work by our values – in everything we do, we work with integrity, and we’re approachable, pragmatic, progressive and passionate. Because we know that fostering shared values and a One Team spirit can be contagious. We’re out to create movements.

Find out more here..Working at Dae.mn

Because movements power digital transformation.

Smells like One Team spirit

We’re all about the energy that comes from confidence, camaraderie and a shared purpose. About unearthing the full potential of every engagement, to inspire and empower our clients, and leave them stronger than when we arrived. 

So we empower you to deliver, with an open, honest culture where you can be yourself. And we give you mentoring, training, and plenty of scope for collaboration. Because we also want Daemon to be all about you.

But it’s not all work, work, work – we’re always finding excuses to get together, with regular socials, clubs and team lunches. When the time is right we throw seasonal parties, with gifts from us for everyone, and awesome extras. Like the Daemon FestDVal: we invite you, your friends and family (and dogs) to fool around with silly stuff like a drum workshop, laser tag and bouncy castles, listen to live music, and stuff yourselves with jerk chicken, veggie curry and donuts. Nice!

Training and development

We love it when Daemonites want to get certified in new or existing technologies. Not only will we pay for you to do it – there might even be a bit of a bonus in it for you. We also make sure that you get internal training on the new products you need. 

Big client experience

You’ll get the chance to work with enterprise clients on different types of engagements, so you can hone your fabulous skill set and get to grips with all the latest tech.

Plus you’ll find:

• The Daemon buddy system to support you in your first six months
• Support from a team of super-experienced consultants
• A progression panel that sit every six months