The Principal Engineer - Masterclass Training Course
The Principal Engineer - Masterclass is designed for experienced and driven engineers who already possess the ability to deliver production-ready code. This course transforms you into an exceptional software engineer and leader, enabling you to create a significant positive impact on your team and organization. Participants will gain insights into system design and architecture, code review techniques, mentoring and coaching strategies, pair programming, building a robust engineering culture, and other critical engineering practices.
This instructor-led, live training (available onsite or remotely) is targeted at:
- mid-level software engineers
- senior software engineers
- principal software engineers
- staff software engineers
- lead software engineers
- software architects
- engineering managers
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Progress to the next level from mid-level or senior engineering roles
- For those already leading teams or holding positions above senior engineer, apply the tools, techniques, and frameworks learned in this course to:
- effectively lead high-performing engineering teams
- achieve 360° effective collaboration with all stakeholders
- demonstrate expertise in the core technical skills of a principal engineer
- foster a strong engineering culture within the organization
- master 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 Customization Options
- To request customized training for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.
Course Outline
- Lead
- High-performing teams
- Initiatives and OKRs
- Building engineering culture
- Building scalable systems
- Hiring 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 Proof of Concepts (POCs)
- Customer-centric software development
- Prioritization 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 become a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Software Architect.
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Testimonials (3)
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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