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: Up to £508 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 is required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team within clients Land Registration domain, and to act as a conduit between the development team and the Architecture Steering Group, helping to define and refine best practices, standards, and architectural principles.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE TECHNICAL LEAD

Significant commercial experience with the following technology:

• Java 11/17
• Spring Boot microservices
• Spring security and OAuth2
• JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React/Next,js
• OpenShift
• RabbitMQ
• Elasticsearch
• Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker
• Postgres/PostGIS
• AWS IAM, Lambda, Aurora/Postgres
• AWS CDK and AWS based CI/CD pipelines

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

• Technically leading a high-performing, cross-functional development team.
• Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.
• Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects
• 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
• Using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to produce high quality, maintainable code
• Using Consumer Driver Contract Testing to verify system behaviour
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, specifically Grafana and Kibana
• Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems
• Working in Agile delivery models
• Defining infrastructure as code
• Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces
• Designing and developing with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly Mongo and Postgres

If you are a Technical Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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