Lead Software Engineer

Job Description We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. In this role, you will lead the development, support and enhance the business systems and applications using .NET technologies and SQL Server.We offer a hybrid working arrangement with one day or two days per week in our Milton Keynes office.Key Responsibilities:

• Keep up to date regarding best practices in software development and deployment
• Implement best practice coding in relation to Development coding standards
• Provides direction and technical context for more junior developers
• Fosters a culture of observability across the engineering team. Helps teams across engineering use operational data to improve stability and performance of their applications.
• Maintain documentation and release notes
• Awareness of application security considerations
• Leads incident response across the engineering teams as needed
• Identifies dependencies across the organization and works with individual teams to resolve them before they become an issue, and installs preventative measures to mitigate repeat occurrences.
• Work alongside other Software Engineers on projects or work alone where necessary
• Create secure and high performing n-tier applications utilising best practices in the development of database applications using SQL
• Contribute to improve the overall development processes and methodologies followed by the Development team
• Design and develop commercial/enterprise web applications
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Works with all teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks.

Experience and Skills Required:

• Experience leading software deliverables in an agile environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining multiple connected software solutions
• Web applications experience using C# and ASP.NET MVC
• Excellent skills in SQL Server
• Ability to select and use the most appropriate tools, technologies, and languages for the job
• Team-oriented, with a willingness to work as part of a collaborative environment
• Skilled in software testing methodologies
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design and development skills

Highly Desirable:

• Experience with concurrent programming techniques, parallelism, and threading
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience with high-scalability projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
• Experience with modern web application development architectures and frameworks such as blazor and react

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Connells Group we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t fit perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.CF00687