Lead engineer

Job description

Join us as a Lead Engineer

This is an opportunity for a driven Lead Engineer to join us and support the technical delivery of a software engineering team

You’ll be responsible for developing solution design options and explaining the pros and cons to key stakeholders for appropriate decision making

Hone your existing technical skills and advance your career in this innovative and challenging role

We’re offering this role at associate vice president level

What you’ll do

In this role, you’ll support a team of developers and set the technical direction of the deliveries, applying the principles and methodologies of software engineering to the technical design, development, testing, and maintenance of applications and services.

We’ll look to you to oversee the work quality of the software engineering team, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output, as well as implementing a culture of concise and comprehensive technical documentation as a continuous process.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

Supporting and monitoring the technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance and providing updates to stakeholders

Supporting and mentoring the team in the understanding of relevant software languages and technical domains

Driving the adoption of software engineering principles, processes and best practices

Liaising with engineers, architects, business analysts and other key stakeholders to understand the objectives, requirements and options

Designing and developing high-volume, high-performance and high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies

The skills you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience in providing technical leadership and accountability for a software engineering team.

We’ll also look to you to have experience of test-driven development and responsible for DevOps delivery and Release & Environment management for the SLX platform, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools, along with knowledge of the key phases of the software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies.

You’ll also demonstrate:

The ability to develop software in DevOps, GitLab, Teamcity, GIT, Windows PowerShell, SQL, .Net, PCF 

Maintain and Support dev-ops tools for efficient incident management and change management

Experience experience in CI/CD automation and Infra activities including Application maintenance, configuration, integration with industry wide tools like Splunk, Service-now etc. for enhancing the product

A background of implementing programming best-practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance

Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales