We’re supporting a growing organisation looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join its engineering community and take technical ownership of large-scale, operationally critical client projects.
This is a senior, client-facing technical leadership role. You’ll take ownership of the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end, from initial concept through to live operation, while mentoring engineers and contributing to the continued growth of the wider engineering capability.
What you’ll be doing
- Owning the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end, including design, development, documentation and release, ensuring solutions meet high engineering standards and are fit for operational use.
- Defining and owning technical quality processes across your engagement, including build pipelines, code quality, testing and source control.
- Leading client engagements from project inception through to delivery, acting as the primary technical point of contact.
- Leading technical discussions and aligning stakeholders and teams around effective solutions.
- Owning requirements analysis and solution design, translating business needs into robust technical architecture.
- Reviewing tools and processes to identify and drive continuous improvements within your engagement, while advising clients on wider opportunities for improvement.
- Mentoring and supporting the development of Mid-Level and Senior Engineers, including task-level support and technical quality coaching.
- Contributing to presales activity and pitches for new work, while building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Building deep expertise in one or more technology ecosystems and sharing that knowledge with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Taking ownership of impact assessments for proposed changes and managing delivery risk.
- Ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, observable and cost-optimised.
- Championing the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools, keeping up to date with emerging technologies and sharing knowledge across the engineering community.
- Identifying opportunities where AI-powered capabilities, such as LLM integrations or intelligent automation, could add value to client engagements and working with specialist AI teams where required.
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience in client-facing roles, with excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Proven experience providing technical leadership to engineering teams and clients.
- Hands-on experience leading the delivery of large-scale software development projects.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers.
- Strong Agile software development experience, including continuous delivery.
- Strong experience with .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and C#.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
- A strong understanding of Agile software development practices and tools.
- Confidence in guiding teams to adopt AI-assisted engineering tools and practices safely and effectively.
It would be great if you also have experience with
- Client-facing experience gained within a technical consultancy or software vendor.
- Working directly with executive and director-level stakeholders.
- Providing technical leadership across multiple development teams.
- Designing technical solutions that integrate with legacy systems.
- System-to-system integration and interoperability.
- Common design patterns and approaches, such as event-driven architecture, CQRS or Domain-Driven Design.
- Integrating AI-powered features, such as LLM-based assistants or intelligent automation, into existing applications.
- Platform engineering practices, including internal developer platforms, paved-road tooling or self-service infrastructure designed to improve development team productivity.
What’s on offer?
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible annual leave, including options to buy, sell and carry forward leave.
- Twice-yearly tax-free bonus opportunities, subject to company performance.
- Continuous training, development and career support.
- Employer pension contributions.
- Flexible healthcare benefits.
- A strong social calendar, including annual events, away days and regular team socials.
- Cycle-to-work and green vehicle schemes.
- Opportunities to support charity, community and initiatives that encourage greater diversity in technology.
- Hybrid and flexible working, allowing you to vary when and where you work to support collaboration, creativity and focused working.
Location: Hybrid / Flexible
Role: Lead Software Engineer
If you’re an experienced Software Engineer ready to take the next step into a technical leadership role, with the opportunity to lead client delivery, mentor engineers and shape technical solutions, get in touch to find out more.
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