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Technical Lead

Job Purpose

As a Technical Lead you will work as part of the IT team, and take the lead on driving the various systems and products that are supported by IT forwards to enable the business to get the most from these systems. You will be responsible for identifying and delivering improvements to systems to refine our clients operations and to meet business requirements.

Principal Accountabilities

• Being the primary person responsible for the technical solutions within the software engineering function
• Responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our AWS Infrastructure across all applications ranging from in-house developed products through to data warehousing and modern CICD pipelines that support the delivery of our business critical applications
• Responsible for ensuring all technical solutions are designed to a high standard using modern cloud first principles
• Being the go-to person for supporting the software engineering function to help colleagues understand problems, design solutions and bridge the gap in knowledge between yourself and more junior members of staff
• Responsible for governing the software development life cycle to ensure quality and well tested software is at the forefront of daily activities
• Responsible for driving the delivery of the software engineering team across multiple projects
• Working in close collaboration with the business to drive positive change in systems development and usage
• Working across all business units and departments to understand their challenges
• Create, develop and deliver multiple technical improvement roadmaps for core applications
• Working closely with internal teams within IT including service desk, infrastructure and security, onshore and offshore software engineers
• Working closely with external third parties to deliver timely improvements for business requirements
• Proactively putting ideas forward to showcase how new technical solutions can aid the business
• Constructively challenge requirements to ensure the requested features are in line with the product and technical strategy
• Managing the delivery of the current sprints within our existing agile project management guidelines to ensure the timely delivery of solutions from the team
• Closely understanding users needs of the products and systems they use daily to help make more informed decisions about the technical direction of travel
• Working with both internal and external key stakeholders to ensure everyone’s needs are taken into account and balancing any conflicts that may arise

The Person           

• Required Qualifications & Professional Membership(s):
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant field or equivalent.

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a Technical Lead or a similar role
• Demonstratable of both wide and deep technical knowledge
• Experience working in a fast paced agile environment
• Experience of agile project management principles and tooling
• Solid experience of the Software Development Life Cycle and modern DevOps principles including the trade offs between different approaches
• Experience explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences at all levels throughout the organisation
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and meticulous attention to detail.
• Awareness of conceptual, physical and logical data modelling to aid in discussions with both technical and non-technical users
• Solid experience of the concepts and practices of relational database management systems
• Solid experience of API driven development
• Solid experience of integrations, integration design patterns and delivery using cloud native tooling
• Experience of Terraform or other similar infrastructure as code tooling
• Solid experience in technical leadership roles
• Key Technologies: AWS Cloud, EC2, RDS (MySQL), S3, Kinesis, Redshift, API Gateway, PHP, Spring Boot, Java, Terraform, Git, JSON, Postman.        

Skills & Personal Qualities

• Must be a self-starter and able to work under own initiative
• Must be a highly proactive person
• Must be an over communicator to ensure everyone is kept in the loop on progress