Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer – Enterprise Platforms & Automation

The Role

Our client is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise platforms, automation and workflow-driven products.

This is not a pure management role. You will lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on across architecture, design, coding and production delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own architecture, system design, APIs, data models and technical delivery.
• Design complex workflows, state management and human approval processes.
• Build scalable enterprise integrations, including ERP/SAP where relevant.
• Lead engineers while remaining hands-on with code and technical reviews.
• Establish standards for security, testing, CI/CD, observability and reliability.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Identify appropriate opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs within enterprise workflows.

Requirements:

• 10+ years software engineering experience.
• 4+ years at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer or equivalent level.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems experience.
• Expertise in APIs, databases, microservices and enterprise integration.
• Experience with workflow-heavy or transaction-heavy platforms.
• Cloud, Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD experience.
• Strong security, reliability and observability mindset.
• Recent hands-on production engineering experience.

Strong Advantage:

• Workflow/BPM or state-machine experience.
• Event-driven architecture.
• ERP/SAP integrations.
• Azure.
• LLM/GenAI or agentic AI in production.
• Financial services, government or other regulated environments.

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