Technical Lead

Technical Lead Outside IR35 Remote

An experienced software engineer is required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team. To act as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping to define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles.

Essential skills & experience

Significant commercial experience in the following technology:

• Java 17
• Spring boot Microservices
• Spring Security and OAuth2
• JavaScript UI frameworks, including OpenLayers and React.
• Python
• OpenShift
• Postgres/PostGIS
• AWS Lambda, S3, SQS, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK.
• Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines and Jenkins.
• Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:
• Technically leading a high-performing, cross-functional development team.
• Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
• Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations.
• Introduction of new or improved processes in development environments.
• Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices.
• Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures.
• Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks.
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
• Using verbal and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems.
• Working in Agile delivery models.
• Defining infrastructure as code.
• Coaching and training other developers and team members.

Desirable skills & experience

• Demonstrable experience in successful data migration initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in transitional architectures.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age