Lead Principal Engineer - AI Delivery Hub

Lead Principal Engineer - AI Delivery Hub

About the Role

The Lead Principal Engineer is an experienced technical leader focused on strengthening engineering quality and collaboration across the organization.

Working across multiple teams and technical areas, you will define and promote engineering standards, practices, and tools that help teams deliver high-quality, secure, and reliable software efficiently. You act as a collaborative enabler, improving developer experience, productivity, software excellence, and operational reliability throughout the AI Delivery Hub.

You influence through partnership and expertise, collaborating closely with architects, engineering managers, principal engineers, and platform teams to continuously enhance how software is designed, built, tested, deployed, and maintained.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop and evolve engineering standards, guidelines, and best practices that support scalable, maintainable, and secure software.
• Promote software quality, reliability, and observability, ensuring teams can deliver safely and efficiently.
• Encourage adoption of modern software engineering practices and tools.
• Support technical reviews and help resolve complex engineering challenges through collaboration.
• Enhance developer experience by improving processes, tools, and platforms while reducing obstacles to delivery.
• Advocate for reusable frameworks, templates, and accelerators that streamline team development efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on technology quality, performance, and sustainability.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership and architects to align strategic technical direction and encourage thoughtful decision-making.
• Mentor technical leaders and engineers, creating communities of practice and sharing expertise through workshops, forums, and mentorship.
• Foster an environment of shared learning, curiosity, and inclusive technical excellence.

What Success Looks Like

• Teams deliver effectively with sustained quality and dependability.
• Consistent adoption of engineering standards promotes smooth cross-team collaboration.
• Developer experience and productivity improve through better tools and practices.
• Technical sustainability (reduction in technical debt) is actively supported.
• Clear engineering guidelines enable autonomy while reducing unnecessary complexity.
• Knowledge and expertise are widely shared, amplifying technical capability across the organization.
• Teams view engineering practices as enablers for innovation and impact.

Your Profile

• Extensive experience leading impactful software engineering initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, cloud-native systems, and contemporary engineering methodologies.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across multiple teams on technical direction and continuous improvement.
• Experience enhancing engineering effectiveness, developer productivity, or delivery quality at scale.
• Demonstrated communication, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement skills that foster trust and alignment.

What we can offer you

🌎 A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.
🎓 Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.
🤗 A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.
🌟 A hybrid working model - We want our employees to do their best work, however the hybrid model works best for them.
🌈 A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.
📈 A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.
🎯 A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.  

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer and committed to an accessible recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.

 

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