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# Principal Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead

- **Company:** Skyral
- **Location:** Warminster, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Modeling and Simulation, Golang
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/principal-engineer-technical-delivery-lead-skyral-8711462

## About the Role

* Proven ability to lead a software development team
 * Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
 * Ability to engage with MOD customer and commercial content providers
 * Ability to translate architecture into working systems.
 * Ability to unblock teams across modelling, integration, and platform issues.
 * A solid understanding of modelling and simulation principles.
 * A strong grounding in distributed systems design., * C++ and Go (Golang).
 * Cloud Native Computing & SDLC (Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, ORAS, ArgoCD etc.)
 * Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across system boundaries.
 * Ability to reason about performance, latency, and system behaviour.
 * Familiarity with containerisation, Kubernetes-style environments, and distributed deployments.

## Description

* Leading a team of developers and the Skyral primary point of contact at Warminster.
 * You will hold technical accountability across multiple concurrent projects, whilst ensuring the team delivers a fully working training system, not just components.
 * Support the development solution architectures and turn these into implementation.
 * Make technical decisions across modelling, integration, and platform usage.
 * Step into problems across modelling challenges, integration issues, deployment blockers and guide engineering work across all disciplines.
 * Ensure solutions are designed to be composable, reusable, and comply with platform-first principles.
 * Act as the final escalation point for technical issues on site.
 * Maintain momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.


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