The Principal Engineer - Masterclass Training Course
The Principal Engineer - Masterclass is designed for seasoned and driven engineers who are already proficient in delivering production-ready code. This program aims to elevate you into an exceptional software engineer and leader, enabling you to create a significant positive impact on your team and organization. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into system design and architecture, code review techniques, mentoring and coaching strategies for engineers, pair programming practices, fostering a robust engineering culture, and other fundamental engineering best practices.
This instructor-led live training (available onsite or remote) 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 positions to the next career level.
- If you are already leading a team or hold a position above senior engineer, begin applying the tools, techniques, and frameworks learned in this course to:
- effectively lead high-performing engineering teams
- foster effective 360° collaboration with all stakeholders
- demonstrate expertise in the core technical skills of a principal engineer
- cultivate a strong engineering culture within your organization
- master a mindset of continuous learning
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Abundant exercises and practical application.
- Tools, techniques, and frameworks to help you become an 'unicorn engineer.'
- Sharing of real-life experiences.
Course Customization Options
- To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange details.
Course Outline
- Lead
- High-performing teams
- Initiatives and OKRs
- Building engineering culture
- Building scalable systems
- Onboarding the right engineers
- Collaborate
- Mentoring & Coaching engineers through pairing
- Serving 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 process
- Learn
- Researching, Prototyping and POCs
- Customer-centric software development
- Prioritization and Delegation
- Learning from failures and successes
- Time management
Requirements
It is recommended to have at least 3 years of commercial software development experience to fully benefit from this course.
This course will pave the way for you to become a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Software Architect.
Open Training Courses require 5+ participants.
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hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
Key topics can be discussed and agreed upon with the trainer in advance. Relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the seminar days.
Lorenz - Continentale Lebensversicherung AG
Course - Advanced Selenium
I gained new knowledge and I'm pretty confident about it. Nothing unclear.
Barbara - Titian Software Poland Sp. z o.o.
Course - Selenium WebDriver in C#
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