Lead Engineer - AWS

Legal & General; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Legal & General seeks a Lead Engineer to guide their software development team. In this pivotal role, you'll drive projects and mentor engineers while ensuring technical excellence. Your expertise in Agile and modern development tools will shape the future of their engineering practices. Join a company committed to creating a positive impact while fostering your career growth.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

At least 25 days holiday

Competitive family leave

Electric car scheme

Discounts on products and at stores

Qualifications

• Proficient knowledge of software testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and secure development.
• Experience in contributing to technical direction and mentoring engineers.
• Technical knowledge in Java or JVM languages, and familiarity with CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable and secure products.
• Mentor and coach engineers while overseeing technical work.
• Conduct research on relevant technologies to improve applications.

Skills

Software testing frameworks

CI/CD

Development strategies

Agile methodologies

Microservices

Education

Full Stack Staff Engineer

Tools

Java

Angular

AWS

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Job Description

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Engineer to join our expanding software development team. In this pivotal role, the Staff Engineer will leverage extensive skills and experience to lead and mentor a team of highly talented engineers. With exceptional technical expertise, the Staff Engineer will drive the team's projects to successful completion. This role is crucial in ensuring the team's success, shaping the strategic vision of application design, and identifying opportunities to standardise approaches across adjacent teams.

What you'll be doing:

1. Spearheading the development of scalable, secure, and well-architected products and platforms, ensuring we deliver exceptional outcomes to our customers efficiently.
2. Acting as a multi-faceted leader by leveraging influence, technical expertise, and organisational authority to align with the long-term goals of the organisation.
3. Engaging in applied engineering by transforming strategic direction into tangible technology and viable engineering approaches. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, provide business value, adhere to quality standards, and align with standard engineering practices and L&G SSDLC policies.
4. Overseeing technical work across multiple development teams to reduce duplication, enhance collaboration, and provide clarity on progress, ensuring smooth delivery of cross-cutting concerns.
5. Partnering with and enabling engineering leaders to fulfill the division's strategic direction. Mentoring engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their independence.
6. Conducting research on relevant technologies and identifying opportunities to incorporate them as appropriate. Applying knowledge of technology options and surveying the external market landscape for insights, direction, and vendors to keep our applications up-to-date, relevant, and efficient, delivering value to the business and end-users.
7. Addressing technical blockers and identifying process improvements within your domain. Actively seeking out and resolving impediments to team efficiency ('technical debt'), proposing and implementing solutions to enable faster iteration.
8. Guiding and collaborating with the Developer Community to define software development standards that meet security, compliance, and audit requirements without hindering the software development process.

Qualifications - Who we're looking for:

1. Full Stack Staff Engineer, with proficient knowledge of: Software testing frameworks and strategies, CI/CD and associated release strategies, Secure development strategies, Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban), Microservices patterns/frameworks.
2. Technical Knowledge of: Java or other JVM languages, Angular or other JavaScript frameworks, AWS.
3. Experience in contributing and influencing technical direction.
4. Experience in setting technical direction and providing effective engineering perspectives.
5. Experience guiding, coaching, and mentoring colleagues.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only).
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax-efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• Many discounts on our products and at high street stores and online.
• Redesigned workspaces in 2023, providing great spaces to connect, collaborate, and focus on wellbeing.

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time, and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential, and connection to our purpose.