• Java
• PHP
• Oracle databases

Role Overview

Leadership

• Experience acting as a technical leader within an engineering team, setting technical direction and best practice.
• Strong technical coaching and mentoring capability.
• Ability to foster a high-performing team and a positive engineering culture through technical example and collaboration.

Product & Delivery

• Experience partnering with Product Managers.
• Strong backlog and roadmap input experience.
• Ability to balance strategic objectives with delivery commitments.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies and delivery risks.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable engaging with senior business stakeholders and technical audiences.
• Ability to influence decisions through evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills.

Hands-on element

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and mentoring to engineers within the squad, leading by example on code quality, architecture decisions and engineering best practice.
• Responsible for writing high-quality code, adhering to agreed team and regulatory standards, as well as reviewing the code of peers.
• Investigating and remediating production incidents and conducting/documenting root cause analysis.
• Working collaboratively with the team to help deliver new features and capabilities for the business.
• Actively participating in all team meetings and contributing to design/implementation discussions, providing healthy challenge and feedback.
• Ensuring existing and newly developed solutions are production ready, reliable, secure, performant, observable and maintainable.
• Where required, responsible for integrating with third-party systems in a secure and robust manner, ensuring appropriate resiliency solutions are in place.
• Maintaining awareness of current secure coding practices and ensuring any code produced is in line with these.
• Responsible for developing and evidencing automated tests alongside code produced.
• Responsible for documenting and socialising all solutions produced in line with agreed team standards.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of a healthy backlog, including but not limited to feature tickets and any technical debt incurred.
• Seeking approval from the appropriate Senior Engineering Manager or Principal Software Engineer before introducing new libraries and frameworks.
• Responsible for ensuring any infrastructure produced uses IaC.
• Responsible for following change management processes.
• Cultivating strong working relationships both within the working squad and across HL as a whole.