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Java Engineering Lead / Principal Farringdon, London (Hybrid) Permanent Who are we? Toyota Connected Europe wants to create a better world through connected mobility for all. We are a new company created to bring big data and a customer focus into all aspects of the mobility experience, so everyone’s experience is more personal, convenient, fun and safe. We create and enable technologies to delight and simplify the lives of everyone who use our products and empower them to think of and use our services in new ways. You will be joining us at the beginning of Toyota Connected Europe’s journey of building our team and products. We are building teams to inspire, innovate and build technologies and products that are used by millions of people from all walks of life. We want every member of our team to live and breathe the start-up culture of Toyota Connected Europe and feel and act like an owner every day. This is an opportunity to have an immediate impact and voice: what you create today, you will see being used tomorrow. About the Role: We are looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to join the team who will have a pivotal role in building core team capabilities and leading the design, development, implementation and documentation of large-scale, distributed software applications, systems and services. You will lead the development of platforms which will enable our vehicles to communicate to the cloud. The features you build will power driving experiences across the world.   What you will do: Define and drive the adoption of leading principles, practices, standards and technologies to develop high quality, robust and secure technology solutions Work closely with product and stakeholders to best solve business problems, shape and deliver features to customers, partner to set the optimum direction of the product roadmap and thrive as an independent, autonomous, creative thinker that can break out from conventional solutions Technical responsibility for software development across all stages and iterations. Plan and drive software construction activities, adopt and adapt appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measure and monitor applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security, contributing to the development of policies, standards, and guidelines Systems and software design of large or complex systems, undertake impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs, ensuring balance of functional and non-functional requirements and that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively, making recommendations and assess and manage associated risks. Adopt and adapt system design methods, tools and techniques; contributing to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components Plan and drive systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives, select, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques. Ensure that stakeholders are aware of required resources and manage optimum availability and utilisation. Ensure projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements Plan and drive activities to develop systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration, identify evaluate and manage the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Lead integration work in line with the agreed system and service design, assess risk and take preventative action. Contributes to identifying new areas of capability improvement within the organisation, select and prioritise improvement opportunities, generate buy-in and plans improvement activities justified by measurable benefits Determine development needs for a professional practice area, align