Tech Lead / Senior EngineerLocation: LeedsDuration: 4 months + extensionsResponsibilities:
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