Lead Software Engineer: Architect & Coach (12-Month)

Microlise; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EV car scheme

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday

Flexible working

Job summary

Microlise is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive technical performance and coach teams across multiple disciplines. You will shape objectives, reduce technical debt and lead design reviews within a collaborative engineering culture.

The role offers a 12-month fixed-term contract, with a clear career path, mentorship, and opportunities to work on modern technologies alongside a high-calibre team in a Midlands-based environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching technical performance within a team and across a business.
• Ability to set technical objectives and measure progress.
• Experience highlighting training requirements within a multi-discipline agile team.

Responsibilities

• Proven abilities in coaching technical performance within a team and across a business, setting technical objectives and measuring progress
• Highlighting training requirements within a multi discipline agile team
• Technical debt identification and pay down
• Strong communication skills for internal and external stakeholders
• Advocate and leadership of design review
• Technical evangelism
• Able to implement patterns of enterprise architecture
• Working with architecture focused road maps
• Positive attitude in the workplace

Skills

Angular

Typescript

CSS

HTML

.Net

C#

SQL Server

Kafka

Elastic/Kibana

Powershell

Yaml

Leadership coaching

Tools

SQL Server

Kafka

Elastic/Kibana

Powershell

Yaml

Job description

Microlise is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive technical performance and coach teams across multiple disciplines. You will shape objectives, reduce technical debt and lead design reviews within a collaborative engineering culture.

The role offers a 12-month fixed-term contract, with a clear career path, mentorship, and opportunities to work on modern technologies alongside a high-calibre team in a Midlands-based environment.