Tech Lead / Senior Engineer

Tech Lead / Senior Engineer

Location: Leeds

Duration: 4 months + extensions

Responsibilities

• • Build upon a history of technical leading engineering teams and a track record of delivery within those teams.

• • Inspiring others and leading by example, with a supportive and collaborative attitude in a maturing Agile and DevOps environment.

• • Be experienced in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices and able to guide teams in the adoption of those practices

• • Demonstrate a deep, hands on knowledge of TDD and BDD techniques

• • Familiar with a couple of different languages, and well-versed in at least one

• • Keen to collaborate with others, and you’ll give thought about how software fits into the bigger picture

• • Show expertise in the latest technologies, processes and tools and how they can be utilised to deliver frequently, safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

• • Keep up with emerging technologies and processes both with the Bank group and externally.

• • Play a leading role in the first direct Engineering discipline, driving best practice and standards compliance within first direct and global IT

• • Work with the Engineering management team to ensure that the members of the Engineering discipline can maximise their potential and that of the discipline.

• • Work closely with the first direct Portfolio Management team to proactively identify enabling changes required for future Engineering work

• • Work with the Scrum Teams to encourage and enable Agile and DevOps ways of working.

• • first direct promotes a DevOps culture, so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.

• The ideal candidate for this role be familiar with all and expert in some of the following:

• • Practical experience of Java 8, Spring Boot, Maven, IntelliJ, Node JS, React,

• • Native iOS development – Swift 4, XCode and CocoaPods

• • Native Android development – Java, Kotlin, Android Studio

• • Data engineering - Python

• • Experience consuming REST APIs and utilising JSON for web or mobile applications

• • Agile Methodologies – Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Pair Programming

• • Agile Tooling – Jira, Confluence, Slack

• • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Nexus

• • Test automation development utilising –JUnit, Wiremock, Mockito

• • PaaS / IaaS - Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Mule API Gateway, AWS

• • Application Monitoring – Splunk, AppDynamics. Division: J&C Associates Ltd - EUR Reference: 20-05567