Role: Software Development Coach
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension.
Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh or Glasgow - expected to occasionally visit one of these locations as per the requirements of the role.
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £557.25 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Software Development Coach for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COACH
An experienced, hands-on software engineering practitioner is required to improve engineering capability across the company. The role works with product and enablement teams to strengthen delivery, reduce technical and operational risk, and embed secure, resilient and maintainable engineering practices. Its focus is practical coaching and organisational improvement: helping teams adopt shared standards, effective developer tooling, platform capabilities and responsible AI-assisted development where these deliver clear value.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COACH
Must be passionate about software engineering and helping teams build secure, resilient and maintainable services. Candidates should demonstrate significant commercial experience in the following core areas:
- Hands-on software engineering and technical leadership across modern, cloud-based delivery environments.
- Coaching and mentoring multiple agile delivery teams, adapting the approach to different levels of maturity and need.
- Improving developer experience, engineering productivity and delivery quality through pragmatic standards, tooling, automation and platform capabilities.
- Introducing or supporting AI-assisted software development, with an understanding of responsible adoption, practical use cases and measurable value.
- Identifying and reducing technical debt, security, service resilience and knowledge concentration risks.
- Building communities of practice and facilitating workshops, learning and knowledge transfer across teams.
- Supporting technical modernisation and platform adoption while balancing delivery priorities and organisational constraints.
- Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define problems, influence decisions and deliver sustainable improvements.
Technical breadth
- Strong working knowledge of continuous delivery, cloud-native engineering, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, secure software development and service resilience.
- Practical experience with AWS, GitLab or comparable CI/CD platforms, APIs, containers and at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Working knowledge of large language models and AI-assisted engineering tools, including their practical limitations, risks and operating considerations.
If you are a Software Development Coach, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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