Software Engineering Team Lead

Description:

As an experienced Software Developer who wants to build on their leadership skills, or an experienced technical leader looking for a new challenge, you’ll be taking on a leadership role in a truly unique technical space that offers many challenges that we’re confident will provide an amazing experience to truly have an impact.

We offer training packages to ensure you get the best guidance and support to help you succeed.

You’ll play a part in recruiting your new team and leading the way it works, making decisions that affect your own and wider teams. You’ll enjoy engaging with others, collaborating, finding solutions to problems and take a ‘people first’ approach relishing the opportunity to develop others to reach their full potential through advising, guiding, mentoring and coaching to help grow their career.

Half of your time will be hands on technical with the remainder being focused on leadership, management and stakeholder engagement but ultimately, it’s up to you, you decide how your team works.

You’ll be focused on the delivery, but also ‘keep your hand in’ guiding and motivating team members to deliver, creating an environment that ensures team happiness and success. With complete autonomy you’ll decide how to manage and get the best out of your team, and with our new performance benefits you as a line manager will have the ability to reward excellent work through various ways.

Your key areas of impact:

• Building and leading an agile software engineering team delivering with high performance and high quality.
• Taking a hands-on role with engineering delivery where necessary, blending your leadership and technical skills to achieve team objectives.
• Growing and developing team members as well as Supporting Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and encouraging formal professional qualifications.
• Working with your peers to improve our tools, technologies, guidance and standards.
• Progressing the Digital Data and Technology profession, understanding all roles and helping to build our engineering community.