Lead Software Engineer

The Opportunity
We're seeking a passionate and experienced Lead Software Engineer. As an experienced technical leader within our Engineering discipline, you will be empowered to apply your expertise in software design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance, while helping foster a strong focus on excellence and best practice.

You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

At a certified Great Place to Work you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us
Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities
A Lead Engineer oversees the planning, design, development, integration and testing of high-quality software solutions that meet business and user needs. Equally, they are proactive in identifying continuous improvement opportunities, making use of best practice design patterns, methods and tools. This includes:

• Taking technical responsibility for the high-quality engineering of complex services across all stages (design, build, test, deploy, operate, and continually improve)
• Implementing end-to-end architectures for larger services, ensuring deliverables are of a high standard and maintaining quality documentation
• Structuring and providing technical assurance for the work of teams, advising on design patterns and engineering approaches to ensure software quality, including non-functional requirements
• Guiding team members and participating in the hands-on implementation of best practices in engineering
• Collaborating with Dev Ops engineers to implement CI/CD pipelines for supporting ongoing software quality
• Building effective relationships with clients and stakeholders, offering options for decision-making, and providing commercially sound advice and solutions
• Offering formal and informal advice and guidance in the development of strategies, frameworks and standards as required
• Collaborating with Engineering, User-Centred Design, Service Operations, Delivery Management, and Data Science practitioners to achieve objectives and successes within multi-disciplinary teams
• Playing a leading role in the Engineering discipline to maintain an energised community of engineers, influencing company-wide innovation, best practice adoption, standards, tools, and artefacts
• Supporting the ongoing growth of Informed's Engineering capability by helping to recruit technical staff and contributing to InformedACADEMY

• Experience collaborating with client technical and business stakeholders to define solution deliverables that meet business and user needs
• An unbiased and independent perspective on technology stacks used to deliver a particular solution
• Understanding of software engineering best practices and design patterns for enterprise-scale solutions
• Proven track record of leading technical teams to solve complex problems and deliver innovative solutions
• Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, GDS Service Manual, etc.).
• Broad understanding of modern programming languages, leading frameworks, distributed system architectures (e.g., microservices), and the full software development lifecycle, including use of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Strong planning skills, with the ability to assign…