Technical Lead / Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer / Technical Lead - 12 months - hybrid Leeds or Manchester or Newcastle - (Apply online only) per day inside IR35

Security Clearance: BPSS but candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance ie 5 years UK residency with no more than 1 month out of the country at a time.

We are looking for outstanding Technical Leads who can make a positive impact, and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK.

Let's be clear about the impact of your work - the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

You will be a hands-on Technical Leader, leading one of our teams that either: develop our agent or citizen facing digital systems; OR provide shared capabilities that allow us to build, assure, deploy and operate these services.

As a Technical Lead, you will:

- set direction for your service/capability and your team that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);

- ensure that your team's work aligns to standards;

- have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;

- ensure that your team follow best practice;

- be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;

- have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.

Essential Skills

Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of:

o modern software engineering for digital products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka);

o OR designing and implementing modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation (ideally AWS, Terraform, GitLab 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

Lead Software Engineer / Technical Lead - 12 months - hybrid Leeds or Manchester or Newcastle - (Apply online only) per day inside IR35

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