Job Specifications
About us:
Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.
You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.
At a certified you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.
Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.
The Role:
As a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at Informed Solutions, you'll take overall technical ownership of large, complex digital solutions for the public sector. Your expertise will guide teams, influence technical strategy, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure services.
You'll lead end-to-end delivery of major components or entire services, overseeing architecture, design, development, and continual improvement. Working collaboratively across Software Engineering, User-Centred Design, Delivery Management, and Data Science, you'll shape enterprise-scale digital solutions, mentor colleagues, and drive innovation within the Engineering discipline.
We are technology-agnostic, allowing you to select the best tools and platforms for each challenge. From .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, AWS, Azure, and more, you'll deepen your technical expertise while shaping the way our teams deliver transformative solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Client Engagements:
Take overall technical responsibility for high-quality engineering across large, complex services, from design through operation and continual improvement
Own the end-to-end architecture and design, producing and maintaining high-quality documentation and ensuring designs are effectively implemented
Work with Delivery Managers to plan complex technical activities, provide robust estimates, and proactively mitigate technical risks and issues
Build trusted client and partner relationships, offering guidance, enabling effective decision-making, and ensuring technically and commercially sound solutions
Provide technical assurance and mentoring for teams, supporting less experienced practitioners and maximising overall delivery quality and velocity
Engineering Discipline:
Drive innovation and best practice adoption across the Engineering community, motivating and empowering domain practitioners to create a positive and creative culture
Support the growth of our Engineering capability via recruitment, masterclasses, training, and curriculum development
Provide Practitioner Coaching and technical leadership to guide the development of other engineers
Requirements
Essential Skills:
Extensive experience leading Full Stack Engineering teams, with advanced skills in .NET or Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries
Proven track record of taking technical ownership of large-scale services, including architecture, design, and delivery across the full lifecycle
Strong understanding of architectural and design patterns (serverless, microservices), with ability to lead and assure their application
Experience leading delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, TDD), providing technical guidance and contributing to planning and estimation
Hands-on expertise the cloud, delivering scalable, secure, and well-architected solutions
Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, enabling high-quality, efficient delivery
Strong client engagement skills, able to advise on technical direction and build trusted relationships
Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Terraform
Desirable Skills:
Consultancy experience, engaging with external stakeholders and clients
Exposure to public sector projects and delivery in complex organisational environments
Key abilities that are necessary for success:
Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working
Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines
Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships
Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others
Good communication ski
About the Company
Informed Solutions provides enterprise technology platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation.
Our clients are globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.
The multi Queen’s Award-winning data and AI-powered solutions we develop help make the world a safer, greener, healthier, more inclusive, and smarter place. They are used by millions of peopl...
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