Role: Lead Software Engineer REF 88974
Contract Length: 12 Months
Location: Any Hub except London – Leeds location is preference
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Up to £750 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS but candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance
Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead Software Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- 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 teams work aligns to standards;
- Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
- Ensure that you 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.
As well as being a hands-on engineer, the successful candidate will be expected to lead other engineers as well as actively collaborate, champion technical evolution within the organisation, and ensure that your team is helping to achieve overarching strategic aims.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of:
- modern software engineering for digital products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka);
- 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
- 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.
If you are a Lead Software Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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