Key accountabilities: Provide senior technical leadership and innovation to a team of software engineers, including:• engaging with and challenging the team in technical design discussions• Staying informed within the wider software development industry and championing new techniques and standards• Drive the increase of technical knowledge of our systems across your team to enhance expertise• Lead the definition, maintenance and adherence of coding best practices, standards and documentation guidelines• Providing a level of hands-on development activity, including Coding/configuring and documenting complex solutions from supplied specifications, using agreed standards and tools, and conduct reviews with others as appropriate.
• By coaching engineers into adopting best technical practices and adherence to coding standards.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the technology stack(s) in use by the team, able to advise on technical debt/improvements• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of cloud technologies, design principles, architectures, and software.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for related technologies and understand the interactions between the systems.
• Work closely in collaboration with solutions architects to produce systems analysis documentation for the implementation of new projects and system changes.
• Maintain interoperability of all development work to ensure applications can work with other products or systems – present or future – without any restricted access or implementation.
• Ensure adequate DevOps support in place for key business events, and prioritise production incident fixing as defined by the IM processesSkills, qualifications, and experience: • Educated to Degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience of leading and managing at team and technical level.
• Substantial experience of leading software development within multiple frameworks using: o C#, Web API, MVC, Front end frameworks (e.g. Angular), REST o SQL with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
o Automated tests and deployments o Visual Studio, Git, Atlassian tools; Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo o Continuous integration and deployments o Cloud based solutions, specifically AWS• Be able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, large-scale agile change initiative with multiple technologies.
• Expert/extensive technical knowledge with proven experience in leading technical design discussions and managing quality control.
• Previous significant experience of hands on development with a demonstrable career in software engineering with enterprise cloud based applications