Tech Principal

Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

We are seeking Principal Engineer (hands-on Architect) to lead client engagements and expand our Azure capability. This pivotal role requires a balance of leading on client, driving the Azure practice proposition in the local market, and deepening our partnerships through genuine technical expertise. You will work closely with AND's global cloud practice team and local leadership to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.

Your Leadership & Influence:

• Technology Engineering Leadership: You have a proven track record of leading complex Azure software engineering engagements. You excel at navigating enterprise-scale problem-solving, turning technical challenges into opportunities for our clients. You have a rapid development ethos, through iterative lean development practices.
• Stakeholder Artistry: You are a master of client-facing delivery. You can translate complex cloud architectures into tangible business value, managing multi-vendor environments with a focus on long-term partnership.
• Hands-on Mindset: You are comfortable leading engagements from the front, whether embedded directly in a customer team and guiding engineering teams. You bring a bias for delivery and are ready to roll up your sleeves when it matters helping teams succeed.

Your Strategic Mindset:

• Quality Advocate: You take personal pride in the integrity of your work. You champion quality assurance, security, and performance as a mindset — ensuring the solutions we build for clients are robust, reliable, and respected.
• Industry Stewardship: You are a lifelong learner who keeps a pulse on industry standards, emerging cloud patterns, and best practices.
• Partnership Focus: You champion relationships with technology partners, whether established or new, working collaboratively to accelerate delivery and strengthen AND's competencies with our partners.
• Practice Contribution: You use your expert knowledge to drive contributions to AND's central repository of accelerators and reusable assets. Sharing engineering good practices, coordinating lightning talks and gamedays to help upskill colleagues. Bringing the best of AND’s engineering practice to the local club, region and clients. 

Your Technical Fluency:

You lead by example. While your primary focus is client delivery, you maintain the technical depth required to guide engagements end-to-end from initial architecture through to production:

• Engineering: Full stack experience across several languages & data, for e.g. .Net, React/Typescript, javascript, SQL, Cosmos, YAML, JSON. An advanced understanding of modern engineering practices such as pairing, mobbing, TDD, security by design, error handling, AI use in development with tools like CoPilot / Claude, prompt engineering and a shift left approach using observability tools like Datadog and Dynatrace. 
• Technology Breadth: You bring deep expertise across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including Azure Landing Zones, Entra ID, cloud-native patterns such as serverless and event-driven architectures, serverless, and a wide range of PaaS and IaaS workloads with strong alignment to the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF).
• DevOps Practices: You are fluent in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration, with hands-on experience across a broad technology range, including Terraform, Bicep, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes. 
• Platform Expertise: You have hands-on experience with building GenAI and the Azure AI Foundry ecosystem, Data Platforms (Fabric / Databricks), and the breadth of Azure PaaS and IaaS services.
• Security & Governance: You understand Zero Trust architecture principles and have practical experience with compliance, FinOps, observability, BCDR, monitoring, logging, and SIEM.
• Architecture Design: You produce clear, considered architectural documentation, HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, and can lead solutions workshops, articulating complex ideas confidently to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Certifications: Hold relevant industry certifications, e.g. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Why join AND Digital?

We have three core values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• The benefits of having a small company feel through being part of an autonomous Club, while being able to take in the benefits of a larger organisation.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. 
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Flexible bank holidays
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan 
• Private medical insurance 
• 6% employer pension contribution, when you contribute 2%
• PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits - click here

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.