The Principal Engineer - Masterclass Training Course
The Principal Engineer - Masterclass is designed for seasoned and ambitious engineers who already possess the ability to deliver production-ready code. This course aims to transform you into an exceptional software engineer and leader, enabling you to make a significant positive impact on your team and organisation. Throughout this course, you will gain insights into system design and architecture, code review methodologies, mentoring and coaching engineers, pair programming, cultivating a robust engineering culture, and other essential engineering practices.
This instructor-led, live training (available onsite or remotely) is tailored for:
- mid-level software engineers
- senior software engineers
- principal software engineers
- staff software engineers
- lead software engineers
- software architects
- engineering managers
By the conclusion of this training, participants will be equipped to:
- Promote from mid-level or senior engineering roles to the next career stage
- For those already leading teams or holding senior positions, utilise the tools, techniques, and frameworks learned in this course to:
- effectively lead high-performing engineering teams
- engage in effective 360-degree collaboration with all stakeholders
- master the core technical skills required of a principal engineer
- foster a strong engineering culture within the organisation
- embrace a mindset of continuous learning
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Extensive exercises and practical application.
- Tools, techniques, and frameworks to help you become a 'unicorn' engineer
- Sharing of real-life experiences
Course Customisation Options
- To request a customised training version of this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
- Lead
- High-performing teams
- Initiatives and OKRs
- Building engineering culture
- Building scalable systems
- Recruiting the right engineers
- Collaborate
- Mentoring and coaching engineers through pairing
- Acting as a force multiplier
- Cross-functional stakeholder collaboration
- Technical documentation and presentation
- Collaboration with management
- Expertise
- System design and architecture
- Effective code reviews
- Monitoring systems and services
- Horizontal skills
- Development and release processes
- Learn
- Researching, prototyping, and proofs of concept (POCs)
- Customer-centric software development
- Prioritisation and delegation
- Learning from failures and successes
- Time management
Requirements
Recommended prior experience includes at least 3 years of commercial software development to fully benefit from this course.
This course will pave the way for you to advance into roles such as Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Software Architect.
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