Technical Lead Developer

K3 Capital Group; Bolton Croft; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services group is seeking a Technical Lead Developer to spearhead digital transformation projects. The role involves recruiting a development team, overseeing software architecture, and integrating cutting-edge technologies like AI and Azure. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the company's digital strategy while working in an innovative environment.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience using .NET (C#) in a commercial environment.
• At least 3 years’ experience with front end frameworks like Angular, Vue, or React.
• Good experience with Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of developers and mentor junior members.
• Design and oversee technical aspects of software projects.
• Ensure quality and best practices in software development.

Skills

.NET (C#)

Angular

React

Microsoft Azure

low/no code platforms

RESTful APIs

relational databases (SQL)

GIT

Job description

Who we are: K3 Capital Group is a digitally ambitious and highly entrepreneurial group of professional services businesses advising SMEs.

Why join us: K3 Capital Group are on the cusp of an exciting digital transformation journey and central to that transformation is technology. By joining us you will have the opportunity to shape exciting and innovative projects that will be critical to achieving the strategic business objectives. You will have the chance to dive into cutting edge tech including Azure, AI, Machine Learning, and more, whilst at the forefront of driving our digital future.

What you’ll be doing: We are looking for a technical lead developer who will be able to work across our multiple application stacks providing expertise in selecting new technologies, maintaining our existing platforms and developing exciting new solutions in line with strategic business plans and objectives. You will also be responsible for recruiting, managing and mentoring a group development team, providing technical guidance, assuring quality and ensuring that best practice is followed. You will be responsible for designing and overseeing the technical aspects of software projects, ensuring that the architecture aligns with the business goals, technical requirements and digital strategy.

Core Responsibilities:

• Recruitment: Build and manage a team of traditional and low code developers capable of delivering the Group Digital Strategy.
• Mentoring and Management: Mentor and manage mid-level and junior developers, providing guidance and support to help them grow in their roles.
• Suppliers and Partners: Work with external developers and development partners to provide quality assessments and performance management on quality of code and make group recommendations for future platform usage.
• Technical Assurance: Ensure the quality and alignment of software platforms by providing technical guidance and support to both internal and external development teams.
• Technical Architecture: Lead the technical end-to-end development using a combination of low code and traditional development techniques ensuring alignment with business requirements, design patterns and best practices.
• AI - Evaluation, selection and development of AI technologies to effectively address business opportunities.
• Cloud Governance: Work closely with the Head of Applications and Architecture to provide assurance when assessing SaaS providers and validating cloud architecture design.
• Innovation: Proactively engage in prototyping and identify emerging technologies to drive innovation in line with the group objectives.
• API Development: Design and manage APIs and API strategy, ensuring best practice versioning and backwards compatibility with internal and external applications.
• Version Control: Manage our version control strategy and ensure code management policies are adhered to.
• Development: Contribute to the development of applications writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Integrations - Lead the development and maintenance of integrations between low-code platforms and other enterprise solutions.
• UI/UX Feasibility: Ensure the technical feasibility of UX/UI designs to a variety of methodologies and contribute to designs with an “accessibility for all” mindset.
• Security: Design and implement security and data protection measures for all applications with a “secure by design” principle.
• Best Practices: Ensure that coding is conducted to best practice guidelines to build and maintain a high-quality application portfolio.
• Devops: Contribute to CICD pipelines to automate testing, deployment and monitoring processes.
• Project Delivery: Deliver application modules in line with the delivery profile and architecture laid down by the Head of Applications and Architecture, adhering to the organisation change process.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for code, APIs and system processes.
  
  
  

Other Responsibilities

• Collaboration: Work closely with senior stakeholders and business users. Guide developers to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Delivery: Work within multi-disciplined teams to deliver software solutions in line with business expectations.
• Problem-Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise during development and post-development. Be the escalation point and resolve technical issues that arise during development
  
  
  

Essential Skills

• At least 5 years’ experience using .NET (C#) in a commercial environment.
• At least 3 years’ experience working with front end frameworks such as Angular, Vue or React.
• Good experience working with and designing solutions for Microsoft Azure.
• Proficiency in using low/no code platforms such as Microsoft Power Apps.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience developing and delivering software solutions working within an Agile framework.
• Expert level developing RESTful APIs.
• Expert level working with relational databases (SQL).
• Expert level in using GIT for version control and collaboration.
  
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of microservices architectures.
• Experience of implementing and developing IPaaS solutions and the benefits that such platforms bring.
• Additional programming language knowledge such as Python, PHP.
• Experience in leveraging Azure’s AI services and integrating these into applications to enhance functionality.