Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead - Defence

Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever‑changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations.

Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

We are looking for a Senior Developer who is aspiring to become a Technical Architect. The role involves leading the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and high performing cloud solutions, primarily on AWS or Azure. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on senior engineer with strong architectural thinking who is ready to step up into a broader technical leadership role. They should have practical experience with modern application architectures, infrastructure automation, and cloud native engineering within Agile environments.

• Contribute to and lead the design of cloud-based architectures that prioritise scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs and work with stakeholders across engineering, product, and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership across full stack development, microservices, distributed systems, event‑driven patterns, and cloud native application design.
• Use major cloud platform services (AWS or Azure) to build robust, secure, and cost‑effective solutions.
• Apply cloud Well‑Architected Framework principles to ensure best practice implementation.
• Support and lead application modernisation efforts including containerisation, serverless adoption, refactoring, and cloud migration.
• Guide teams in CI/CD pipeline creation, automation practices, Dev Ops workflows, and infrastructure as code.
• Produce architecture diagrams, documentation, standards, and reusable design patterns.
• Work closely with developers, cloud engineers, product owners, and business leaders within Agile delivery teams.

Bachelor's Degree

• Cloud: AWS or Azure (core compute, storage, networking, API, serverless, and managed database services)
• Architecture:
  Microservices, distributed systems, event‑driven and serverless patterns
• Containerisation:
  Kubernetes (EKS or AKS), Docker, Helm
• I…