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TechShack

Principal Engineer

Leeds Hybrid 10+ yrs exp Staffing and Recruiting 24 employees£90k – £110k / year
Solution ArchitectureClient Relationship ManagementTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementCloud Computing
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Requirements

Must have consultancy or client-facing delivery experience and a proven track record of leading engineers. Requires strong architectural credibility across cloud and CI/CD, with the ability to handle loosely defined briefs.

Job Description

Principal Engineer

Software consultancy | Leeds, hybrid


Location: Leeds. One day a week on-site, occasional client travel.

Salary: £90,000 to £110,000

Clearance: SC held or eligible. Sponsorship available.

Process: Two stages. One held on-site in Leeds.


The Role

A leadership seat at account level, not a senior engineering seat with a better title.

You would own the technical direction of a client engagement and run the people delivering it. Time splits between the client relationship and your teams. Hands-on coding is not the focus.

Briefs arrive loosely defined. Turning a vague problem into an architecture a team can build is most of the job.


Scope

  • Own solution architecture across complex, multi-stakeholder programmes
  • Act as the senior technical voice with client stakeholders and translate decisions for non-technical audiences
  • Run teams. A lead here has three or four engineers. A principal has roughly double that, or several leads on larger programmes
  • Weigh technical calls against cost and commercial reality, and flag where more value can be added
  • Mentor engineers and shape internal engineering practice

Essential

  • Consultancy or client-facing delivery experience. The hard gate. Strong technologists have been turned down for lacking it
  • Presence. Someone you would put in front of a client to lead a programme without hesitation
  • Genuinely multi-language. Engineering judgement and architecture matter more than any one stack
  • Credible across cloud, CI/CD, engineering and architecture
  • Track record leading engineers and owning a programme technically

Useful

  • Kotlin, C#/.NET, TypeScript, React or Azure. None are dealbreakers
  • Existing SC clearance


A lead ready for the step up will be considered, with salary pitched accordingly.

Skills

Solution ArchitectureClient Relationship ManagementTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementCloud ComputingCI/CDEngineering JudgementStakeholder ManagementConsultancyKotlinC#/.NETTypeScriptReactAzure

About TechShack

TechShack is a tech recruitment partner building high-performing engineering teams across the UK, EU and US. We work across product engineering, cloud, AI, mobile, and security-cleared environments. From early-stage startups to large-scale transformation projects, including work across the public sector and local government. We’ve also built a strong niche in the Rust ecosystem. Supporting teams across Web3, DeFi, trading, and other performance-critical systems. Beyond hiring, we’re building a community around the people shaping modern tech. Roundtables. Meetups. Real conversations. If you're hiring, drop us a message here or connect with one of the team. Follow us on - https://www.instagram.com/techshackrecruitment/