Lead Software Engineer - Manchester/Leeds/Newcastle

The Client: A government department client is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join them on a 9 month contract. This position will be hybrid with 2-3 days in client offices based around the UK.
Job Summary:
We are looking for outstanding Technical Leads who can make a positive impact, and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK. Let's be clear about the impact of your work the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service's monolithic architectures into microservices. You will be a hands-on technical leader, leading one of our teams that either: develop our agent or citizen facing digital systems; OR provide shared capabilities that allow us to build, assure, deploy and operate these services.

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).
• 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.