IT & Software

Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Aveva Group

Cambridge · Cambridgeshire · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role, you lead the design and delivery of AVEVA CONNECT Core Services on Microsoft Azure, shaping secure, scalable cloud platform capabilities. You will partner with architects, product teams and engineers to translate technical vision into tangible solutions. You drive modern cloud engineering practices, guide complex decisions, and raise engineering standards across a fast-moving platform. You contribute to AVEVA's AI- and cloud-led strategy while delivering high-quality technical outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership role in a global industrial software environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration and impact.

Pay / Benefits
  • Flexible benefits fund
  • emergency leave days
  • adoption leave
  • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • pension
  • private medical insurance
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and implementation of secure, resilient cloud platform capabilities for AVEVA CONNECT Core Services
  • Guide architecture and engineering decisions across microservices, REST APIs, data design, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
  • Provide technical leadership to development teams, supporting complex problem-solving, design reviews, and delivery quality
  • Promote cloud technologies, modern engineering practices, and AI-assisted development tools across AVEVA
  • Collaborate with Directors, architects, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to align technical direction with platform and business priorities
Key requirements
  • Experience designing and delivering complex enterprise or cloud platform solutions
  • Technical leadership experience, including guiding teams, shaping architecture, or influencing engineering direction
  • Strong design and coding skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality technical outcomes
  • Experience developing microservice or service-oriented architectures and designing REST APIs
  • Experience with C#/.NET or multiple programming languages, plus strong database design, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure or other cloud platforms
  • Strong communication
  • Ownership
  • Adaptability
  • Kubernetes
  • containers
  • cloud-native application platforms

Reference: WJ-747_30999533

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