Lead Developer

Description:

You will provide technical leadership to the developers in one project team, or a small number of related project teams, and provide technical leadership. You will work together with other Lead Developers and the Head of Software Engineering to help shape policies, standards and drive forward the profession.

You’ll be an expert in various technical areas, or a specialist with very deep knowledge in a particular technical area, who can guide other developers. You’ll deliver user-centred features and services rapidly within an agile environment and champion code quality through developer ownership and emerging technologies. You’ll provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring for your team, communicate with your stakeholders and work closely with colleagues in other disciplines and teams to ensure work is efficiently delivered.

Job description

Main responsibilities

• Deliver high quality user-centred features and services within an agile environment

• Champion community of practice within DDaT to prioritise code ownership and quality

• Transform DDaT into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices like Test Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming, Prototyping/MVP, Continuous Integration and Deployment of small, frequent code changes

• Mentor, coach and support colleagues to deliver to our standards that reinforce industry standard best practices

• Work with your peers to improve our tools, technologies, guidance and standards. Work with the developer community to define and document technical standards.

• Support sharing of methods and technologies across teams, government, and the industry by helping to organise events

• Support developer hiring, shape our in-house team, to make it more diverse and inclusive

• Line manage developers to deliver great results, learn and grow, and progress their careers