Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Our public sector client is looking for an experienced software engineer with solid commercial AWS development experience to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team. You will be responsible for acting as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping define and refine best practices, standards and architectural principles.

Skills and Experience

• Significant commercial experience with the following technology: AWS including: CDK, Serverless (Lambda), S3, API Gateway, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres
• Typescript
• Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React
• Strong HTML / CSS skills and an awareness of accessibility considerations

Testing tools and frameworks e.g. Cypress Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

• Technically leading a high-performing, cross-functional development team.
• Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
• Formal XP engineering practices
• Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards
• Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations
• Introduction of new or improved processes in development environments
• Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
• Designing and implementing solutions using service and event-based architectures
• Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana
• Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems

Main Outcomes

• Lead development of new features for a major product within the organisation .
• Lead the backend refactoring of RCIL (AT and CB) to use vanilla Lambda instead of NextJS.
• Contribute to the design and documentation of the external/public APIs for the products.
• Lead the BAU support for all products maintained by the domain. This includes live support, bug fixing and upgrading our software and platforms to ensure all products are safely maintainable.

Next Steps

If you have the relevant skills and experience and would like to learn more about this opportunity, please apply with your up to date CV and I will endeavour to get back to you.