Principal Software Engineer

Xanalys a Harris Computer company is currently recruiting for a Principal Software Engineer on a permanent remote-working basis. This role sits in a small high-trust business unit supporting a cross-functional cross-product platform portfolio: legacy and greenfield applications developer tooling internal dashboards and company-wide tools.
This is a senior individual contributor role with technical leadership influence (no direct reports) working closely with the Platform Team Lead and Director of R&D.

Top Priorities

• AI workflow usage and implementation are a key part of this role: use AI tooling heavily and daily and design/ship agentic workflows that improve team delivery.

• Maintain a quality and testing-first engineering approach: automated unit integration end-to-end and acceptance testing are core to delivery.

• Own SRE and DevOps outcomes as a top priority: reliability observability operability CI/CD health and continuous improvement are part of day-to-day ownership.

Scope of the Role

• Work profile: approximately 80% hands-on engineering 20% planning triage review retros and technical leadership activities.

• Ownership: own modules and features end-to-end (design build test release production support) not entire enterprise products.

• Landscape influence: understand the broader enterprise landscape form strong technical opinions and drive change across products.

• Stewardship: adopt and stabilise orphaned modules then bring them up to current standards.

Core Responsibilities

• Use AI tooling heavily and daily: Copilot Claude and agentic workflows including creation of skills agents rules plugins instructions and prompt patterns.

• Champion and train others (technical and non-technical) in collaborative AI tooling and workflow agentification.

• Ensure outward communication is human-curated concise and thoughtful; never publish unedited AI output.

• Maintain a quality and testing-first approach with automated unit integration end-to-end and acceptance testing.

• Deliver and improve complex enterprise systems spanning hybrid monoliths and standalone modules.

• Build scale and optimise solutions SQL Server Azure Terraform Docker PowerShell bash XML and XSL.

• Own CI and CD through Azure DevOps pipelines including quality gates and deployment automation.

• Run structured release management using established CD systems disciplined tagging/versioning and Jira release management.

• Integrate and support third-party components packages and integrations.

• Follow established patterns and practices and introduce better ones where justified.

Required Experience and Attributes

• Significant hands-on engineering experience with and SQL Server capability.

• Comprehensive scripting capability in PowerShell and bash for build deployment operations and troubleshooting.

• Proven CI/CD and release management capability (including tagging/versioning and Jira release practices).

• Strong ownership mindset proactive communication and high personal organisation.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor others and raise technical standards through influence.

• Confidence working directly with customer technical teams in regulated settings.

• Ability and willingness to obtain Security Clearance

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling and optimising legacy systems.

About Us

Xanalys specialise in providing powerful software capabilities for threat assessment investigative case management and advanced crime and fraud analytics. Our solutions help our clients to manage multi-jurisdiction major crime investigations assess and analyse suspicious financial transactions capture and act upon intelligence reports and disclose evidence in a court-ready format to ensure successful outcomes.

Benefits
Harris offers an extremely competitive UK employee benefits programme. 5 Personal Days leave entitlement are granted over and above the standard 25 days holiday and bank holidays. Harris also offers all UK employees an annual Lifestyle Reward of 325. Other benefits included such as Private Medical Death in Service Discounts etc.

Supporting Your Application

Our recruitment process will comprise of an interview with the lead recruiter followed by a take home test. As an equal opportunities employer we want to make sure we do all we can to make this a positive experience for you. When applying please make us aware of any adjustments or additional support we can provide you with before or on the day of an interview

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Staff IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1