Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £To be confirmed on application (our client has asked for this not to be advertised).

Location: Leeds/ Manchester/ Newcastle 60 % in the office

Contracting Authority:
Government Client
Contract Length: 12 months
Clearance: DBS but candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance

• Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of:
  • modern software engineering for digital products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka)
  • designing and implementing modern cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, and automation (ideally AWS, Terraform, Git Lab CI, Jenkins)
• Significant demonstrable experience of leading engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance, and coaching and mentoring to support team member development opportunities
• Significant demonstrable experience of engineering best practice in version control, secure design practices, assurance
• Significant demonstrable experience of collaboration & sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community
• Significant demonstrable experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders

• Flexible/adaptable. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change
• Takes responsibility/ownership. Proactively removes blockers to ensure that work is delivered. Is able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort
• High standards. Is committed to quality and is therefore willing to challenge colleagues and to constantly question their own approach
• Openness to criticism and ideas. Draws value from collaboration with others. Actively seeks input from colleagues and values a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy
• Strategic thinking and visioning. Able to understand and communicate the big picture and use it to prioritise and judge impact of smaller tasks and objectives
• Creativity/innovation. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems. Isn’t bound by the status quo

Our dedicated team would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help