Management Level
The staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Lead Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.
Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level : 4 - Enable
- Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
- Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
- Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
- Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required
- Foster optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
- Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
- Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
- Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
- Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
- Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline
Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill : Programming / software development PROG at Level 5
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.Measures and monitors applications of project / team standards for software construction, including software security.Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.Education and Experience
Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in SystemsExperience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisationExperience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based productsProfessional Skills and Qualities
Agile Methodologies - ScrumEfficiency improvementConfiguration managementRelease readinessDocumentation / technical writingProcess, data, system engineeringAnalytical - business, process, data, systemLifecycle managementProblem solvingPersonal Skills and Qualities
Emotional intelligence and empathyMotivation, enthusiasm and optimismCollaboration, teamwork and cooperationActive listening and observationContinuous learningLanguage and communicationCreative thinkingResilience, perseverance and patienceOwnership and dependabilityCritical thinkingTime managementDecision-makingTechnical Experience at Advanced Level
Full Stack developmentJava, Spring, Oracle, RHEL LinuxBDD, TDD, CucumberJira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)REST ServicesDatabase DesignResponsive web designDependency InjectionData access and persistenceORM frameworksUnit and integration testing Modern patterns and practicesWeb accessibility standardsWeb security principlesSAST and DAST toolsContent Management SystemsMessage queuing systemsApplication architectureContainersMicro ServicesSource code controlAwareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelinesSQL, PL / SQL, COAuth, Identity Server,Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web ServicesDomain Knowledge
Experience in Financial Services preferredExperience in Pensions welcomedWe are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.