Description
Technical Lead
Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Technical Lead.
This role will be Inside of IR35, so you will be required to use an FCSA Accredited Umbrella Company.
Key Requirements:
- We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead who will lead a technical team delivering digital products.
- In this role, you will be the Leading Engineer in an Agile squad(s), ultimately responsible for the engineering quality, design, implementation, and operation of your product.
- You will predominantly be working in defining analysing business needs, creating solution designs, hands-on development & leading one or more team of engineers.
- You will also be working with Business Partners, Senior Stake Holders, Data Scientists, and UX Designers to design, implement, test, deliver, document, and maintain complex applications, tools, systems, and services.
- You will work with product managers in analysing business metrics and functional requirements and translate them into robust and scalable technical solutions.
- You will also work with cutting-edge technologies and processes to develop well-rounded skills such as data analysis, leadership, and effective program management.
- You will have significant input into user experience design and will set the technical strategy for your team, creating architecture, and solving problems for the long-term business through best practice approaches to operational excellence, rapid time-to-market delivery, and a frugal total cost of ownership.
- You will diagnose, mitigate and root cause live issues on production solutions and are responsible for their up time and reliability.
- You will also drive successful delivery of the team's product across the organisation and with external partners to design solutions, coordinate development, identify and resolve issues and arbitrate disputes.
- The Technical lead will drive constant improvement in best practices, design, and innovation across multiple teams within your organisation and participate in projects that involve multiple teams within your area of the Digital org and that address issues outside your normal areas of responsibility or expertise.
Key Experience:
- Solid experience in creating and designing solution architectures that adhere to architecture roadmaps.
- Solid development experience with building distributed applications, preferably using Node.js/Typescript, GCP services, Kubernetes. Must have worked in a micro services architecture.
- Experience of headless CMS.
- Experience in DevOps and working with DevOps tooling, (GCP certified would be great to see).
- Experience of defining specifications for micro-services and service orchestration and building microservices using serverless architectures.
- Proven experience of leadership in coaching and mentoring Software Engineers and Test Engineers.
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, and describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
- Experience with building large scale consumer facing applications.
- Exposure and appreciation of Front End technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
- Recent experience of developing high-quality software using agile techniques such as TDD - (test driven development).
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.