Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering - Outside IR35 - Glasgow - Hybrid

Day Rate - up to £725

Duration - 6 months

Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client are looking to bring in a contract Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Be an advocate for a collaborative, positive working environment where software engineers recognise and value the contributions of others and actively support success of the whole team
• Lead in driving the technical strategy for systems, aligned with organisation objectives, balancing business need, resilient engineering, recruitment and budgets
• Drive delivery and leading in software development, ensuring solutions adhere with architectural principles and software design standards
• Coach, mentor and train teams and individuals to improve software development practices, focusing on engineering practices and remove/avoid single points of failure
• Balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity in role and responsibility
• Introduce new efficient processes and concepts in a continuously delivering DevOps environment
• Deliver within Scottish Government Digital Service Standard
• Deliver solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices
• Incrementally replace enterprise Legacy systems, including corporate finance systems
• Promote and ensure adherence to modern software development practices

Skills & Experience Required

• Experience of working with and building Java and Spring Boot based microservices
• Experience of working with public cloud technologies (for this role, we require at least 2 years AWS experience in the past 5 years)
• Experience of TDD and Unit-Test tooling
• Experience of leading engineering teams within Government projects to deliver/enhance public facing services
• Able to identify efficiencies to be materialised by adapting ways of working and/or methods of delivery
• Demonstrable experience in managing both own workload and competing priorities, and of engineers under your leadership
• Familiar with JavaScript and best-practice approaches
• Demonstrable experience of driving engineering teams to project completion whilst ensuring adherence to Government and industry standards, eg Digital Scotland Service Standards, current industry standard software development practices
• Demonstrable experience in mentoring and conducting knowledge transfer to junior permanent in-house staff

Desirable Skills

• Ability to review, identify gaps in and keep up to date engineering onboarding documentation to ensure staff can land and learn the landscape as efficiently as possible
• Ability to create, or ensure the community can create, documentation for common practices, eg a runbook on how to create a new Java Service, which disciplines to engage, how to promote through the path to live
• Experience of working with MariaDB, AWS AuroraDB or MySQL
• Experience with Government security control requirements

Must be eligible for BPSS Clearance.