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Principal IS Engineer @ Centrica - CHP

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Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements: We need clear technical leadership and guidance across architecture, design standards and implementation.We need experience leading high-level solution design and building scalable, modern services using best-in-class patterns.We need strong architectural and engineering judgment, with the ability to set direction while staying hands-on.We need experience mentoring and developing engineers and aligning technical direction with business goals.We need the ability to collaborate effectively across product, engineering and business teams.We need strong problem-solving skills with data-driven thinking and objective reasoning.We need excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical detail into clear business value and influence stakeholders at all levels.We need experience thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment and navigating ambiguity with confidence.We value experience designing, integrating and operating AI-enabled solutions within enterprise environments.We value experience with prompt-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented systems and AI agents.We value experience applying structured evaluation, testing and monitoring to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure and compliant.We value experience preparing and managing data used in AI workflows and supporting the responsible lifecycle of AI features from experimentation through deployment and continuous improvement. Responsibilities: We define and drive the technical vision, aligning engineering direction with business goals and shaping product and technology roadmaps.We champion best engineering practices and foster a collaborative culture while raising technical standards across teams.We design and evolve scalable, high-performance architectures for complex, enterprise-level systems.We mentor and guide engineers while remaining hands-on through coding, code reviews and technical leadership.We partner with product, design and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, customer-focused outcomes.We ensure reliability, security and continuous improvement.We translate complex technical concepts into clear business value.We lead the design of AI-enabled solutions and help ensure they are robust, secure and compliant. Technologies: AISupportSecurity More:

We are Centrica, a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We are an energising team of 21,000 colleagues working toward a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that does not rely on fossil fuels. This is a UK-based hybrid role with occasional travel to site. We offer a generous market salary, car allowance, a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, comprehensive pension, fully funded company healthcare, 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, the option to buy up to 5 extra days, and a wide range of flexible benefits. We are a people place focused on supporting different realities, with flexibility designed to support our people and their families financially, physically and emotionally.

last updated 29 week of 2026

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