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.

As a Tech Principal, you’ll be a hands-on, software engineer specialist working across a Club’s portfolio of clients, onsite and in multi-skilled agile delivery teams. The Tech Principal will use their expert tech knowledge to influence the direction of projects, whilst coaching a team through engineering best practices to build and deliver remarkable products. They will champion software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients.

This role sits within the Clubs senior team called a Practice Group. These people will inspire and challenge our ANDi’s to grow into exceptional digital experts, through teaching, mentoring, coaching and thought leadership. While creating spaces beyond the day to day to guide clients on how best to approach their problems. Finally, as a Principal, you will collaborate with AND stakeholders in the business development process, applying your skills to qualify the potential and maximise the value of new engagements.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Demonstrate full stack software engineering expertise across JavaScript, React, Angular, Node, Vue.js, etc based solutions.  Comfortable being hands-on with development teams, understanding what great code looks like and able to see the bigger picture, taking into account architecture and applying a DevOps mindset.
• Proven experience mentoring and giving and receiving regular feedback to help the Developer community develop and become more effective in their specialisms. 
• Experience working with operations teams to shape the people we recruit, the client projects we win and be passionate about being part of the wider digital community, and contributing to and representing the business..
• As a Principal you will be comfortable shaping how we deliver our engagements being the content (technical) experts bringing the best thinking of AND to our clients in terms of standards, templates, ways of working, tools and accelerators.
• Experience of working as a senior team member in Scrum or Kanban teams, applying best practices and using common teamwork techniques.

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

• 26 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Flexible bank holidays
• 12 ‘Wonder, Share, Delight’ days per year which can be used for upskilling, volunteering, personal well being
• Annual budget for training and upskilling
• 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

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

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.