Software Team Lead – AI, Cyber & Cloud (Hybrid)

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 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