Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer Date Posted: 17/12/2024 Location: Reigate Job Type: Full time Technical Lead Engineer - Retail Technology Full Time London - hybrid Who are Just? We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets. We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement. That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement. Purpose We are recruiting for a Lead Software Engineer to act as the Technical Lead and guide the build, configuration, validation and maintenance of internally developed/configured applications & products within a Retail Technology business area. This role will support with the migration of applications to the cloud (Azure) as a part of an ongoing transformation project. Job Role Key Accountabilities Core planning & delivery activity Collaborate with Value Stream to define implementation options for technical change and translate technical change Epics into Features for Engineering teams incorporating security, performance, availability, supportability, maintainability and roadmap progression aspects. Lead and drive refinement of technical Features with Software Engineering teams. Provide peer review and sign off for completed Features ensuring delivery is in accordance with ‘Definitions of Done’ and ‘Conditions of Acceptance’. Ensure delivery of technical Features is within governance and infosec/risk requirements and complies with relevant architectural, security and Engineering standards. Lead the technical planning and coordination of multi-team/complex production releases/deployments. Support Engineering teams with single-team production releases/deployments and assist Software Engineering Managers with root cause analysis and identifying continual improvement opportunities. Support Software Engineering teams with technical problem solving, incident resolution and technical thought leadership. Use technical mentoring & coaching techniques to enable Software Engineering teams to gain technical confidence and competence. Technical standards and practice leadership Evolve and shape the Engineering standards, principles, practices and roadmaps to reflect changes in technologies and engineering community trends. Encourage, mentor and coach Engineering Team members to develop their skills and practices. Maintain and refine technical debt backlogs; identify technical debt reduction opportunities and implement. Manage catalogue of software library & tooling dependencies utilised within Engineering. Support Software Engineering Managers in assessing standards and practices maturity in teams. Support use of metrics to track improvements and to enhance the software engineering process within teams. Support Software Engineering Managers to foster innovation within teams and introduce new ways of working. Technical and operational documentation Ensure that technical documentation is up-to-date, accurate and sufficiently detailed. Maintain competence Maintain your own technical leadership competence and personal development. Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Qualification Demonstrable skills in the following: Microsoft .NET development stack JAM development stack DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Azure DevOps preferable) Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills Excellent technical coaching and mentoring skills Sound problem analysis and resolution skills Strong knowledge of technical excellence practice and DevOps/CALMS methodologies Understanding of Agile delivery processes/methodologies Understanding of the products and services provided by Just desirable Experience Proven technical thought leadership and DevOps/CALMS best practice Experienced in developing and deploying scalable, secure and highly available cloud applications Proven experience of embedding security, performance, availability and maintainability aspects in delivery. Experience with IT development processes and delivery lifecycles. Experience working within an Agile environment. Familiarity with Test Automation tools and the delivery of automated testing solutions. Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills Strong knowledge of technical excellence practice and DevOps/CALMS methodologies Understanding of Agile delivery processes/methodologies Understanding of business processes Financial Services experience is essential, understanding of the products and services provided by Just desirable Qualification Educated to Degree level (or equivalent experience/qualification) Or Computer science related qualification Certified Scrum Master (or equivalent) - desirable ISEB/ISTQB Certificate in Software Testing- desirable Why Just? We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.

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