Principle Engineer – Field Mobile Platform

Principle Engineer– Field Mobile Platform

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction to evolve and scale the Field Mobile Platform · Define and own mobile platform architecture, standards, patterns, and guardrails across mobile apps, APIs, integration layers, and platform services
• Lead consolidation and simplification of the mobile application estate to reduce duplication, technical debt, and operational complexity
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Supply Chain, Scheduling, and Field Operations to ensure consistent data models, integration patterns, UX principles, and mobile standards
• Shape and deliver new mobile capabilities that improve safety, compliance, customer experience, and field productivity
• Champion engineering excellence including clean architecture, CI/CD automation, testing strategies, observability, release processes, performance optimisation, and secure-by-design practices
• Ensure platform reliability, resilience, and strong offline capability in challenging field environments
• Continuously improve ways of working through automation and AI-enabled tooling, while retaining human accountability for technical decisions.

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• Strong technical leadership and architectural expertise in complex, enterprise-scale mobile and digital platforms
• Deep understanding of mobile application architecture, backend APIs, microservices, and integration patterns
• Proven experience defining and influencing engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural guardrails across multiple teams
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, telemetry, and performance profiling
• Experience designing reliable, resilient, and offline-capable mobile solutions
• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-domain technical problems
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled engineering practices, including use of automation, telemetry, and AI-assisted diagnostics.

Experience required:

• Significant experience as a Senior or Principal Software Engineer within complex digital or platform-based environments
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct line management responsibility
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience operating within established architectural frameworks, security standards, and data privacy requirements.

AI / Digital fluency skills:

• Ability to design, integrate and operate AI-enabled solutions within enterprise environments, including prompt-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented systems and AIagents. Applying structured evaluation, testing and monitoring practices to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure and compliant with organisational guardrails.
• Prepares and manages data used in AI workflows and take responsibility for the responsible lifecycle of AI features from experimentation through to deployment and continuous improvement.