Lead Software Engineer

Boston Consulting Group; Hartford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide a talented engineering team in delivering resilient, scalable solutions in a cloud-based environment. This role emphasizes creating new data products and services while leading the modernization of the existing infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in software engineering, risk, and data management, along with excellent leadership and communication skills. Benefits include a generous pension contribution, annual bonus, and 30 days’ holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits adaptable to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experienced Software Engineer in risk and data environments.
• Strong experience in data analytics with modern software development approaches.
• Hands-on experience leading engineering teams focused on data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver lab's product roadmap on Google Cloud platform.
• Lead development of software and data services from design to support.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching for engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Data analytics

Software development

Cloud technologies

Tools

SAS

Google Cloud

Job description

As a Lead Software Engineer you'll be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers, guiding them through the complexities of engineering and owning the delivery of robust, scalable solutions. You'll use your technical expertise to support product performance, reliability and security in line with our strategic vision. This role will give you the opportunity to work with modern tech and data stacks, and cloud-based architectures, whilst collaborating closely with multi‑functional teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence. This is a key role as part of the Risk Foundations, Consumer Risk Data Lab which creates significant value to the Group, unlocking the potential of the Group's Data Strategy. Join the lab leadership team, helping to shape our direction as we transform the existing estate and build new data products and services.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Lab Engineering Lead, Product Owners, architects and other collaborators to design and deliver the lab's strategic product roadmap, driving forward the modernisation of our proposition by building new product services and data products on Google Cloud platform.
• Lead the development of software and data services from design through to live support, driving a culture of delivering highly resilient, secure and quality software.
• Support colleagues in their performance and development; provide leadership, mentoring and coaching of engineers, fostering a culture of learning, innovation and teamwork.
• Establish high engineering standards and standard processes, leveraging automation for repeatable steps.

Qualifications

• Experienced Software Engineer with a background in risk and data environment, using SAS and cloud‑native applications.
• Excellent leadership, communication and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data and business issues into clear technical solutions.
• Strong experience in data analytics using modern application and software development approaches, including automated testing, test‑driven development, continuous integration, code review and version control.
• Hands‑on experience leading engineering teams with a recent focus on developing data and analytics solutions and migration of applications.
• A solid understanding of data management and data controls, technical experience with cloud technologies including public and private cloud.
• Experience implementing testing methodologies (BDD, TDD, test automation).

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

EEO Statement

We welcome applications from people of under‑represented groups. We are disability confident and provide reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.