Principal Engineering Consultant Sheffield

Lead/Principal Engineering Consultant

As a Principal Consultant at Nimble, you will be an exemplary leader within our Engineering Capability, setting the standard for technical excellence, client leadership, and commercial acumen. You will represent the best of Nimble, building trust with senior client stakeholders while driving positive outcomes on complex programmes.

This is a multifaceted role for a proactive, personable, and passionate technology leader. You will be comfortable being the "first on the ground" on new client engagements, shaping account strategy, establishing technical quality, and providing crucial support to our pre-sales activities. You will wear many hats, blending deep engineering expertise with delivery, data, and product awareness to solve client problems and identify new opportunities for growth.

Key Responsibilities Client Engagement & Strategy

Senior Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.

First on the Ground: Operate independently on new engagements, navigating uncertainty, managing client expectations, and building high-performing delivery teams from the ground up.

Account Strategy: Work closely with fellow nimblers to understand client pain points and formulate account strategies, identifying opportunities to deliver further value.

Champion Nimble: Proactively champion Nimble's values and expertise, both to clients and internally, fostering a unified identity and cross-pollinating knowledge across teams, domains, and capabilities.

Technical Leadership & Quality

Architectural Ownership: This is a deeply technical role that requires a broad range of skills, with software and cloud architecture and engineering at its core. Utilise a broad toolbox of architectural patterns and approaches to design and advocate for pragmatic, effective solutions tailored to the client's context.

Set the Standard: Establish and maintain a high bar for technical quality across multiple teams, having strong, loosely-held opinions on what "good" looks like and helping teams achieve it.

Hands-on Mentorship: Support and coach Senior and Lead consultants, elevating others and acting as a guiding hand to empower them to drive technical initiatives.

Cross-Capability Collaboration: Work across different capabilities, including data, design, and product, to ensure a holistic and joined-up approach to delivery.

Commercial & Pre-Sales Support

Growth Identification: Proactively identify and qualify new commercial opportunities within existing accounts to drive growth.

Pre-Sales Engagement: Provide expert technical support during pre-sales activities, helping to shape bids and proposals and demonstrating Nimble's expertise to prospective clients.

Flexible Deployment: Be comfortable with a flexible level of billable work, using non-billable time effectively to contribute to Nimble's internal growth, knowledge sharing, and business development.

Skills Required

Technical Expertise: Deep experience in at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure preferred) and a strong understanding of a range of object-oriented and functional programming languages.

Pre-Sales Experience: Previous experience in a technical pre-sales or sales engineering environment.

Architectural Vision: Proven ability to design robust, pragmatic technical architectures for complex systems, knowing when to build and when to leverage existing solutions.

Leadership & Mentoring: Demonstrable experience in a leadership capacity, with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing the skills of other consultants.

Stakeholder Communication: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and convey complex technical concepts to senior, non-technical audiences.

Proactive & Personable: A natural self-starter who is confident, positive, and proactive in identifying and solving problems without waiting to be told. You must be a "people person".

Desirable

AI Mindset: A pragmatic and curious mindset towards AI and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and apply them where they add value.

Broad Skillset: A T-shaped profile with an understanding of data, delivery management, and product principles.

Behaviours

Pragmatism & Ownership: You take ownership of challenges and approach them with a pragmatic mindset, balancing ideal solutions with practical constraints to deliver value quickly & effectively.

Collaboration & Egoless Leadership: You are a natural collaborator who champions a culture of transparency and knowledge sharing. You empower others, share credit, and make decisions for the benefit of the team and the client.

Technical Excellence: You maintain an exceptionally high level of technical knowledge and standards, constantly seeking to keep yourself and the teams you work with relevant in a fast-moving industry.

Value Creator: You possess a commercially aware and creative mindset, constantly looking for ways to align client goals with Nimble's objectives to create strategic and reputational advantage.

What we offer

• Private healthcare for you and a family member through Westfield Health
• Multiple Qualified Mental Health First Aider's with regular 1 1's available
• £2k champion fund to spend as you wish on your own L&D
• Referral scheme (£3,000) for every successful applicant
• Dedicated time to spend on your L&D, including time to complete courses and qualifications
• Flat organisational structure with lots of career progression opportunities
• Laptop and any practicable equipment provided (either a Mac or Windows)
• Regular Nimble Socials (both virtual & physical) including Escape rooms, Gin tasting, Lunches, Award nights, Bowling, Bouldering and more!
• Relaxed and fun working environment
• Engaging and collaborative communities to be involved in
• A chance to be involved in company OKRs and shape how we will be in future
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Company pension (with employer contributions)

Equal Opportunities Statement:
At Nimble Approach, we strongly believe that discrimination and victimisation is unacceptable. It is our duty to ensure that no employee or job applicant receives less favourable facilities or treatment (either directly or indirectly) in recruitment or employment on grounds of age, disability, gender / gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy / maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation (the protected characteristics). Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We want everyone at Nimble and those applying to join us to feel safe, supported and encouraged so if we can make any adjustments to help with your application or you require any assistance please reach out to us on and we are happy to help