Details:
- Salary: £557 - Day
- Location: Edinburgh City of Edinburgh
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Role: Technical Lead
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension
Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh or Glasgow - Onsite collaboration when required depending on project/team requirements
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £557.25 per day
Security Clearance: Disclosure Scotland
Spinwell is recruiting for a Technical Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TECHNICAL LEAD
An experienced software engineer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team within client’s Other Registers domain, and to act as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE TECHNICAL LEAD
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
* Working in Agile delivery models
* Defining infrastructure as code
* Coaching and mentoring other developers and team members
If you are a Technical Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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