Tech lead / senior engineer

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Job DescriptionMy client, a large tech consultancy are hiring for a tech lead/senior engineer to work for an initial 4 month contract, with high possibility of extension.

Role & Responsibilities

* 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 group and externally.

* Play a leading role in the first direct Engineering discipline, driving best practice and standards compliance

* 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.

* My client promotes a DevOps culture, so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software they build.Skills & Qualifications* 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

* Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Pair Programming

* Agile Tooling - Jira, Confluence, Slack

* CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Nexus

* Test automation development utilising -JUnit, Wiremock, Mockito

* PaaS / IaaS - Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Mule API Gateway, AWS

* Application Monitoring - Splunk, AppDynamics.