Technical Lead

Technical Lead
Reference: FEB
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £57,532.00 - £61,763.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance and Annual Leave

What's the role about?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative team supporting the full range of this enivrinmental conservation charity's developer work. You will use your technical expertise to help them deliver and evolve the capabilities of their public facing website and several other key systems, finding innovative solutions to meet the needs of conservation aims and their global supporter community.

Working closely with the product team and subject matter experts across the organisation, you will work in an Agile fashion to deliver value to conservation staff quickly and consistently. Depending on the nature of requirements you may be building new functionality into existing applications, or helping to define and deliver new solutions, using the best blend of technologies to ensure successful delivery.

Working with colleagues across the organisation, you will support the full range of the charity's work, varying from their management of over 220 nature reserves to their world-class scientific research, and delivery of landscape scale conservation, to name but a few.

You will work alongside experienced developers within the Technical Engineering team and have the opportunity to grow your knowledge of front and Back End development, APIs, systems integration and working as part of a high performing Agile team.

The ability to work unsupervised and set the technical direction of the team in a flexible remote or hybrid setting is a must.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience of working under Agile principles to develop complex applications
• Strong experience of C#/JavaScript/HTML/CSS to deliver intuitive, modern, user-friendly applications
• Experience of at least one of the following JavaScript frameworks: Angular, React or Vue
• Experience in writing unit tests
• Knowledge of maintaining and managing APIs
• A keen interest in web technologies and keeping skills current
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, demonstrating initiative with a positive and proactive attitude

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience working with source code repositories
• Experience working with SCCS and TypeScript
• Experience writing new APIs
• Experience working with cloud and CICD technologies
• Experience of the Angular framework
• Knowledge/experience of SQL
• Knowledge/experience of conservation work and systems
• Knowledge/experience working with CMS/DAM

Closing date: 23:59, Monday, 31st March 2025
This employer is looking to conduct interviews for this position as soon as suitable candidates present themselves, so please do not delay in applying.
The right is reserved to close once sufficient applications have been received.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

This employer is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued and able to be their full selves. To achieve their vision of creating a world richer in nature, they need more people, and more diverse people, on nature's side. People of colour and disabled people are currently under-represented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, they are particularly interested in receiving your application.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant with need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

No agencies please.