Technical Lead - Digital

Frontier Agriculture; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Technical Lead, where you will bridge the gap between development teams and stakeholders. This role offers the chance to work on exciting projects that transform technology landscapes within the UK agriculture sector. With a focus on technical excellence, you will guide teams in delivering high-quality software solutions while enjoying the flexibility of a fully home-based position. Collaborate with passionate colleagues and make a real impact as you help shape the future of the organization. If you're eager to innovate and drive change, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Work from home anywhere within the UK

25 days holiday plus option to purchase 5 more

Dedicated Learning & Development team

Employee Assistance Program

Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave

Life Assurance scheme

Pension plan with employer contributions

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee retail discount scheme

Qualifications

• Experience with frontend and backend technologies and their infrastructure.
• Hands-on coding experience with a focus on delivery goals.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence and facilitate communication between teams.
• Lead design sessions and code reviews to ensure quality standards.

Skills

Node.js

React

Express

Typescript

SQL

Azure serverless infrastructure

CICD

Scrum/Agile

Job description

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join the Frontier team on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a fully home-based role but there will be a requirement to attend sites when needed.

You are an experienced Lead developer bridging the gap between the development teams and other stakeholders, driving technical excellence while enabling seamless communication and execution in our software development projects.

At Frontier, the Technology Team strives to deliver brilliant experiences for customers and colleagues. We want to hear from passionate, enthusiastic people from any background. We work with a variety of technologies from front-end native and web applications through to the backend systems that hold our organisation together and the hardware they run on. We are a data-driven organisation. We are transforming our technology landscape and the way we work, and this is a fantastic opportunity to join a team at the start of a change journey. Join us to make a real and valuable difference as you build your career at Frontier.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Work from home anywhere within the UK
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with the option to purchase 5 more days
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Comfortable with frontend and backend technologies along with their infrastructure. We are looking for experience with Node.js, React, Express, Typescript, and SQL.
• Experienced with Azure serverless infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and CICD.
• Enjoy working hands-on in the code and are focused on delivery goals.
• Enjoy collaborating with designers and product owners to innovate and devise great technical solutions to meet user needs.
• You will work with other Architects and other Tech Leads to design solutions and solve problems.
• You will implement, measure, and maintain coding standards for the team.
• Familiar with Scrum/Agile and experienced in delivering longer-term goals in an incremental manner.
• Enjoy supporting members of the team and have a passion for bringing the best out of people.
• Help teams to focus on project goals to reach the best delivery outcome.

Your Role

As a Technical Lead (Digital) your role will involve:

• Finding effective solutions to technical problems, overall application architecture design and driving the full-stack framework forwards.
• Ensuring system components designed and developed to agreed technical standards and best practices against complex requirements.
• Owning and developing code quality and maintainability standards and measures, and ensuring the implementation within the development teams.
• Guiding and standardising the estimation process between development teams.
• Leading, and participating in, design sessions and code / peer reviews.
• Leading and performing trials, testing and quality checks to ensure applications deliver agreed business outcomes and agreed technical and security standards.
• Working with development teams to catalogue and reduce technical debt.
• Building and maintaining a knowledge base of agreed design and development artefacts in Frontier KB systems.
• Mentoring, motivating, and coaching developers to improve their knowledge and output.
• Working with the teams to evaluate and evolve the best technical setup to deliver agreed business outcomes in the context of the overall Frontier Architecture Roadmap.
• Optimising our software delivery by defining and measuring KPIs to identify performance improvements.

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.

With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values – Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise – or ‘ICE’. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.