Software Development Team Lead

*Job Summary*
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The Software Development Team Lead will provide Line Management and Technical leadership to a team of software engineers, in addition to being the technical expert and providing some ‘hands-on’ development activities. They will be accountable for the overall direction and operations of the technical stack within their functional and/or product area.
In addition, they will ensure that their team has the right skills, experience and capacity required to support the delivery of technical change across their functional and/or product area and provide technical coaching to ensure the engineering skills across the team are maintained and developed in line with our strategy.
*Responsibilities*
*Providing Line Management for a team of engineers, including:*
* Performance management, through the setting and tracking individual and team objectives
* Tracking of employee engagement metrics and contributing to initiatives to further improve
* Providing excellent leadership to help people perform at their best, through motivating and developing them to achieve high performance
* Setting standards and expectations for quality, accuracy and timeliness.
*Provide senior technical leadership and innovation to a team of software engineers, including:*
* Engaging with and challenging the team in technical design discussions
* Staying informed within the wider software development industry and championing new techniques and standards
* Lead the definition, maintenance and adherence of coding best practices, standards and documentation guidelines
* Providing a level of hands-on development activity, including Coding/configuring and documenting complex solutions from supplied specifications, using agreed standards and tools, and conduct reviews with others as appropriate
* Coaching engineers into adopting best technical practices and adherence to coding standards
* Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of cloud technologies, design principles, architectures, and software
* Work closely in collaboration with solutions architects to produce systems analysis documentation for the implementation of new projects and system changes
*Experience*
* Educated to Degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience
* Significant experience of leading and managing at team and technical level
* Substantial experience of leading software development within multiple frameworks using:
C#, Web API, MVC, Front end frameworks (e.g. Angular), REST
SQL with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
Automated tests and deployments
Visual Studio, Git, Atlassian tools; Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo
Continuous integration and deployments
Cloud based solutions, specifically AWS
* Be able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
* Comfortable working in a dynamic, large-scale agile change initiative with multiple technologies
* Expert/extensive technical knowledge with proven experience in leading technical design discussions and managing quality control
* Previous significant experience of hands-on development with a demonstrable career in software engineering with enterprise cloud-based applications.
Join us in shaping the future of our software solutions while leading a passionate team dedicated to excellence!
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Additional leave
* Bereavement leave
* Canteen
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
* Enhanced maternity leave
* Enhanced paternity leave
* Free parking
* Gym membership
* Health & wellbeing programme
* On-site gym
* On-site parking
* Paid volunteer time
* Referral programme
* Sabbatical
* Sick pay
* Work from home
Schedule:
* Day shift
* Monday to Friday
* No weekends
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cheltenham GL52 3LZ
Application deadline: 28/07/2025