Software Team Lead

Roke Manor Research Ltd; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model

Job summary

Roke Manor Research Ltd in Woking is seeking a Software Team Lead to guide technical teams across AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and data projects that secure the nation. You’ll define technical approaches for mission‑critical work, mentor engineers, and drive best practices in a fast‑paced security environment.

Successful candidates will lead sprint ceremonies, decompose requirements into epics, write secure, test-driven code, and collaborate with researchers to balance user needs with system

Responsibilities

• Providing direction within the scrum team
• Liaise with the engineering lead
• Be able to help the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories
• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
• Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse
• Translate logical designs into physical designs
• Produce detailed designs
• Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns
• Integrating API / UI components with existing data stores and APIs
• Maintain and develop existing architectural components including Data Ingest, Data Stores and REST APIs
• Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions
• Assist the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact on
• Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
• Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user

Job description

Roke, 5th Floor, Space, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Job Description

Posted Friday, 27 February 2026 at 01:00

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.
And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Software Team Lead

Join Us in Securing the Nation’s Future

Are you ready to make a real impact? At the forefront of national security, Roke are a trusted partner delivering mission‑critical solutions that protect the UK and its interests.

As a Software Team Lead, you live and breathe leading technical teams from the front, ensuring best practice and delivery whilst gaining exposure to an increasingly interesting customer base. Your knowledge will be deep; you will use it to define novel technical approaches to mission critical projects that keep the country safe.

This is your opportunity to work on cutting‑edge projects in AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Big Data, and Digital Transformation—helping to shape the future of national security.

Your Mission

This isn’t sat in middle management delivering performance reviews, appraisals or sitting through disciplinary meetings; it’s an opportunity to challenge yourself technically at the forefront of innovation whilst mentoring the next generation.

What You’ll Do

• Providing direction within the scrum team
• Liaise with the engineering lead
• Be able to help the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories.
• Writing clean, secure code following a test‑driven approach
• Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse
• Translate logical designs into physical designs
• Produce detailed designs
• Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns
• Integrating API / UI components with existing data stores and APIs
• Maintain and develop existing architectural components including Data Ingest, Data Stores and REST APIs
• Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand‑ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions.
• Assist the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact on
• Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
• Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user

Why Join Us?

• Purpose‑Driven Work: Contribute to projects that protect lives and national interests.
• Innovation at the Core: Work with leading‑edge technologies in AI, Cyber, and Cloud.
• Career Growth: Be part of a growing business with clear progression paths and investment in your development.
• Culture of Excellence: Join a team of experts who are passionate, collaborative, and mission‑focused.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model with time spent at our state‑of‑the‑art offices, working remotely and possibly at client sites.

Built on over a 60‑year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical work that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Where You’ll Work – Woking

Woking - You’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified – you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5‑minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

There is an expectation that a proportion of your time may be spent working on client sites in the London area.

Clearance

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible and willing to achieve DV clearance.

Roke, 5th Floor, Space, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom