# Principal Engineer

Job Description Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership: Own the technical strategy for the pillar, guiding multiple squads towards high-quality, scalable and well-architected solutions. Hands-On Architecture & Development: Lead the design and development of complex, high-scale systems. This means writing real code, building proofs of concept and diving into problem-solving. Engineering Consistency: Ensure teams within the initiative follow engineering best practices, write clean and maintainable code, and maintain high standards in security, performance and observability. Mentorship & Coaching: Support and upskill Lead Engineers and squad engineers, helping them grow into their full potential. Modern Software Practices: Champion SOLID principles, automated testing and CI/CD best practices, ensuring deployments are fast, safe and seamless. Observability & Performance: Help teams build highly observable systems using DataDog and other tools, making sure we can see and fix issues before they impact users. Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Senior Product Directors, Delivery Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure our technical approach aligns with business needs

- **Id**: 3877233
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/collinson-principal-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T16:54:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:54:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3463
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Loyalty Programs, Property & Casualty Insurance, Business Travel

## Company

- **Id**: 1593
- **Name**: Collinson
- **Domain**: collinsongroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/collinson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.867
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Jest** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Pact** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **GraphQL** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:54:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:7, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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