Climate & Environment Full-time

Principal Engineer - Platform Enablement Squad

Centrica Energy

Posted

May 11, 2026

Location

UK

Type

Full-time

Mission

What you will drive

  • Define and evolve the Field Platform architecture to ensure scalability, resilience, and interoperability.
  • Drive consolidation and simplification of the platform estate, reducing duplication and technical debt.
  • Shape cross-domain technical design decisions and deliver new digital capabilities in partnership with product and business leaders.
  • Establish engineering excellence across teams, championing CI/CD, observability, testing, and secure-by-design principles.

Impact

The difference you'll make

This role enables thousands of field colleagues to work efficiently, safely, and effectively, directly supporting Centrica's mission to create a greener, fairer energy system that doesn't rely on fossil fuels.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

  • Deep technical expertise in platform engineering, architecture, and modern software development practices.
  • Experience with AI-enabled solutions, including prompt-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented systems, and AI agents.
  • Understanding of field workforce operations and experience working in product-led organizations.
  • Strong leadership skills to influence across teams without direct line management.

Benefits

What's in it for you

We offer a total rewards package designed to support you and your family financially, physically, and emotionally. Visit our careers site for more details.

About

Inside Centrica Energy

Centrica Energy is a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet, with a mission to create an energy system that doesn't rely on fossil fuels and to ignite positive change in communities.