Lead Software Engineer

My client are a prestigious government organisation, seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead / direct a team of Java Developers.

Contract Length:12 Months

Location: Leeds / Manchester / Newcastle - 60 % in the office

IR35: in scope

Pay Rate to Candidate: £750 per day DOE

Security Clearance: BPSS but candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance

The successful candidate will:

• Build a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment, implementing API's for internal and external use.
• Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms and help build server-side web applications. Be able to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Maintain system administration and configuration management skills with experience in handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
• Build a scale high-traffic websites and maintain an understanding of web architecture. Knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X

Essential Skills

• 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)