Lead Software Engineer - Manchester/Leeds/Newcastle

Resourgenix Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK government service provider is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join on a 9-month hybrid contract. This role involves leading a team to develop digital systems, transforming architectures into microservices, and ensuring engineering best practices. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in modern software engineering or cloud infrastructure, along with a proven record of technical leadership. This position offers a chance to significantly impact public services in the UK.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in modern software engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Proven technical leadership and team mentoring experience.
• Strong understanding of best practices in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team developing digital systems for government services.
• Transform monolithic architectures into microservices.
• Engage with stakeholders to deliver products on time.

Skills

Modern Software Engineering for Digital Products (Java, microservices, etc.)

Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation (AWS, Terraform)

Technical leadership and mentoring

Collaboration and knowledge sharing

Tools

MongoDB

Kafka

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Overview

The Client: A government department client is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join them on a 9 month contract. This position will be hybrid with 2-3 days in client offices based around the UK.

Job Summary

We are looking for outstanding Technical Leads who can make a positive impact, and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK. Let's be clear about the impact of your work the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service\'s monolithic architectures into microservices. You will be a hands-on technical leader, leading one of our teams that either: develop our agent or citizen facing digital systems; OR provide shared capabilities that allow us to build, assure, deploy and operate these services.

Essential Skills

• Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of:
  • Modern Software Engineering for Digital Products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka).
  • OR designing and implementing modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation (ideally AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Significant demonstrable experience of leading engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance, and coaching and mentoring to support team member development opportunities.
• Significant demonstrable experience of engineering best practice in version control, secure design practices, assurance.
• Significant demonstrable experience of collaboration & sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community.
• Significant demonstrable experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders.