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SalarySalary: £61,420 - £75,070 per annum plus benefits
Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time
Overview
Our client has a great opportunity for three Software Development Team Leaders to join them on a permanent full-time basis.
Our client embraces flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means their teams come together when they need to collaborate. Although this role is contractually based at their Cambridge office, you will also be able to work from home within the UK, with the expectation that you will attend their offices and travel as needed for your role. In this role, you will attend their Cambridge office at least 1 day each week. If you need flexible working arrangements, please outline this in your application.
Our client has an exceptional diversity of audiences - from employees across the world, teachers, scientists and academics, librarians and corporates to politicians and the public. Their work includes activities focused on their role as a support service to UK and international staff, a data source (e.g. for developers consuming data via APIs), a professional body (e.g. supporting members), a publisher (e.g. selling journals, books and databases), and an education resource (e.g. providing content to teachers, students and professionals). Their technology services underpin the operations of all staff members and of their websites and services.
As a Software Development Team Leader for our client, you will shape the software architecture and the fine-grained detail of configuration and implementation throughout the Software Development lifecycle for the performance, security and maintainability of the applications they build.
Working within their DevOps team and with your colleagues across the directorate, you will lead a team of cross-functional technical staff, comprised of both back-end (.NET C#, node.JS), front-end (HTML/CSS/JS/Vue.JS) developers, test automation engineers and site reliability engineers. Your work will enable our client to build, scale and continually improve their websites and services, serving their global audience of customers, users and colleagues. You will oversee the technical aspects of the product roadmap, working closely in collaboration with Solutions Architects and other Team Leaders to align with, contribute to and iterate on a shared architectural repository, guiding agile workstream members in technical implementation, assigning and ensuring quality delivery of backlog items and taking ownership of technical changes and releases. You will also directly line-manage a small number of back-end C# .NET developers.
They are looking for:
• Strong knowledge and experience of full stack (.NET C# back-end development, HTML/CSS/JS/Vue.JS front-end development) Software Development life cycles.
• Experience with DevOps best practices, such as continuous delivery, continuous testing, infrastructure as code etc.
• Experience working within Agile practices, particularly Scrum and Kanban.People management experience including delivery quality, workloads and personal development.
• Knowledge of Authentication and Authorisation protocols (SAML, OpenID Connect).
• You can download the full job description here, please, note that this role is called Tech Leader internally. If you are interested in this role, please apply now. This role is advertised with an open end date and they will be conducting interviews regularly.
• When applying, please provide an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement (no more than 500 words) indicating how your skills, knowledge and competencies match the requirements outlined in the job description here.
Our client recognises the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. They particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates. As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, they endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who have a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
