Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

Permanent

Location: Leeds, Hybrid working - 2 days a week on site (some flexibility in this)

As the Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for working with architecture, infrastructure, engineering, platform, and information security teams, ensuring consistency of engineering best practices.

You will be directly responsible for the software and test engineers; in the role, you will mentor and coach individuals throughout the engineering function as well as work collaboratively across the delivery and platform teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team and community of engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and ensuring alignment with delivery goals, ways of working, and industry best practices.
• Ensure alignment to Agile delivery team ways of working and best practices: Champion Agile engineering best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps and Platforms.
• Ensure secure code by design: Ensure DevSecOps practices are embedded into the software and infrastructure pipelines.
• Review and implement improvements to existing code review practices and tooling.
• Ensure coding practices are aligned to APIM and observability/monitoring tooling.
• Responsible for ensuring all engineering compliance, risks, and issues are understood and highlighted to senior management as they arise.
• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to refactor Azure DevOps (ADO) projects, update CI/CD pipeline templates as necessary, and configure pull request templates to ensure code quality and security.
• Keep abreast of advancements in engineering practices and recommend changes where required.
• Participate in design workshops to ensure that engineering needs are met.

What we are looking for: Experience:

• Strong practical technical background in the following Core Tech: Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, Observability tooling, Azure Data Platform, .NET/C#, PowerShell, Power Platform, Terraform, YAML, Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online, Office365.
• Proven experience of leading engineering teams and communities in a commercial environment.
• Experience of using Azure DevOps.
• Experience of working within a variety of project delivery methodologies including agile and waterfall.

Skills:

• Ability to engage and challenge at all levels; strong influencing skills coupled with tenacity and resilience.
• Good coaching and development skills - the ability to help develop and grow engineering communities.
• Good organisational skills.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Working as part of a team, contributing to achieving team targets.
• Ability to work effectively across several concurrent projects.
• Can operate at both a big picture and a detail level with the ability to act as an agent for change for both.

Knowledge and Qualifications:

• Certified Software Engineering Master (SEMC) / Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) or equivalent.
• Any relevant Microsoft Engineering or Developer certifications, such as:
  • AZ-400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions.
  • AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification.
• Proven web applications development experience - C#, .NET, .NET Core, Asp.Net, MVC, web API, Blazor, TSQL, Bootstrap, JavaScript.

If you are interested and looking for your next role, please apply with a copy of your CV or email .