Principal Engineer Codebase, Platform & DevOps Assessor

Intelance is an independent enterprise architecture technology and cybersecurity advisory firm. We have been appointed to lead a board-level independent technology and data review for a large UK omnichannel retailer.

A big part of this retailers technology is home-built. We need a hands-on principal engineer who can get under the bonnet of that code judge how good it really is and explain what it means in clear terms.

Tasks

You will support an Intelance led independent technology audit.

Typical work may include:

• Review selected home-built platforms applications and codebases.
• Assess code quality technical debt maintainability documentation and engineering standards.
• Review platform architecture APIs integrations services data flows and points of failure.
• Assess DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines test automation release management and deployment controls.
• Review observability logging monitoring incident data resilience and disaster recovery evidence.
• Assess whether the current platforms can scale for higher digital volumes international growth and third-party integrations.
• Help judge which components should be kept fixed bought rebuilt retired or simplified.
• Identify key person dependency weak documentation fragile integrations and high cost areas.
• Work with cyber data cloud enterprise architecture and business specialists.
• Turn technical findings into clear plain-English messages for a CEO CFO and Board.
• Support the creation of a technical evidence pack architecture findings heatmap and roadmap.

Requirements

We are looking for someone with deep software engineering and architecture review experience.

You should have:

• Experience as a Principal Engineer Engineering Director CTO VP Engineering Software Architect Platform Architect or senior technical assessor.
• Strong experience reviewing software codebases not only designing architecture from slides.
• Good understanding of modern software architecture APIs microservices event-driven design cloud platforms and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD DevOps test automation release management and engineering quality.
• Ability to assess maintainability scalability resilience technical debt and documentation quality.
• Ability to review engineering practices without turning the work into a full code remediation project.
• Ability to explain technical issues in simple language to senior non-technical leaders.
• Strong judgement on build versus buy decisions.
• Experience working with complex business critical platforms.
• Availability to support proposal activity immediately with potential delivery work over an eight-week audit period.

Benefits

This is a senior associate opportunity with Intelance.

What is on offer:

• Short-term high impact advisory work.
• Potential involvement in a Board level technology audit for a major UK business.
• Flexible day-rate associate model.
• Clear role boundaries and defined technical assessment scope.
• Opportunity to work with a senior team across enterprise architecture cyber data AI supply chain technology finance systems and technology cost review.
• Work that focuses on evidence real system quality and clear decisions not generic consulting slides.

Please apply with:

• Your CV and LinkedIn profile
• Your availability over the next two weeks
• Your day rate
• Whether you are available to support a short proposal discussion at short notice
• We are moving quickly so suitable candidates may be contacted immediately.