Principal Software Engineering Manager

  • IT
  • United Kingdom
  • 2025-04-23
  • Permanent

About the job

 

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Role: Principal Software Engineering Manager

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London, United Kingdom

 

Ready to collaborate with a leading technology team and provide best in class solutions?

Are you interested to explore more in Software Engineering, Java, and DevOps?

 

Join as a Principal Software Engineering Manager!

 

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We don’t just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more opportunities to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and leadership.

  • Guide and collaborate with some of the brightest global minds in the industry.
  • Be part of an exciting team who challenge themselves every day.
  • Learn a top-tier level of payment gateway and its server infrastructure.

 

The Role

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will be part of a leading technology team, working on solutions that serves our loyal customers and thousands of colleagues.

  • Provide technical expertise, ship brilliantly, and operate with excellence.
  • Work as an equal partner with the product and delivery teams you will deliver elegant and robust solutions to solve complex problems for our customers and colleagues.
  • Lead the engineers to build and maintain high quality and reliable software.
  • Own the engineering excellence of their teams e.g., behaviours, operations, and technical quality.
  • Drive solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture.
  • Line manage and develop engineers to ensure they have the right skills, development plans and attitude to learning
  • Work with the wider technology function to shape the technical strategy, adopting the North Star principles.
  • Help develop/improve customer standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.
  • Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
  • Drive DevOps practices to automate the product development life cycle and ownership attitude.

 

Your Profile

Key skills/knowledge:

  • Strong technical Java Full Stack skills.
  • Good knowledge of all stack areas, from front-end to back-end.
  • Solid background in software engineering with good years of experience in a variety of systems and technologies
  • Strong experience of managing successful delivery in an Agile software environment.
  • Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
  • Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering best practices.
  • Expert knowledge and advocate for continuous integration and continuous delivery experience with cloud engineering.
  • Good understanding of DevOps.
  • Creative, curious, and fearless; you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products.

 

 

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

 

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity and inclusion motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

 

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks such as gender diversity, LGBTQIA+ & Allies, mental health, disability & neurodiversity inclusion and many more, as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and we sponsor the London Marathon.

 

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

 

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

 

Next Steps

Due to a high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.

 

Application Process

1. Online application > 2. Technical discussion > 3. Managerial discussion > 4. HR discussion