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Lead Software Engineer x4 required to work with a government department. This is a 12 month contract, paying £750 per day, inside IR35, hybrid working (2-3 days per week onsite in London).

Summary

We are looking for outstanding Software Engineers who can make a positive impact, and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK. 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.

As a Lead, you will:

• Set direction for your service/capability and your team that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence)
• Ensure that your teams work aligns to standards
• Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services
• Ensure that you team follow best practice
• Be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making
• Have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture

As well as being a hands-on engineer, the successful candidate will be expected to lead other engineers as well as actively collaborate, champion technical evolution within the organisation, and ensure that your team is helping to achieve overarching strategic aims.

Essential Skills

• Modern software engineering for digital products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka)
• 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

Please apply should you meet the above criteria

Attenti Consulting is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.