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Technical Lead - Public Sector - London - 3 months+

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Website Technical Lead to join a public sector digital development team and actively writing code as a senior member of the development team and break down complex problems and identify steps towards solutions, in addition to coaching individuals and engaging with non-technical people at all levels of seniority.

The role requires an equal balance of technical expertise, gained through current, hands-on involvement in developing real-world systems, and excellent interpersonal skills allied with the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in a high pressure environment.

Essential

-Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex software systems, i.e. is an active software developer currently engaged in architecting and building high-volume digital services

-Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to / working with stakeholders at every level of seniority

-Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary architecture approach to software architecture

-Experience of developing product roadmaps, backlogs and measurable success criteria, and of writing user stories, i.e. can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories

-Experience organising and performing prototyping and proof of concepts

-Experience with Agile methodologies (TDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)

-Building and scaling high-traffic websites

-Experience designing and implementing scalable and robust approaches to caching, security and databases (including relational, e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and "NoSQL", e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB)

-Experience with automated configuration management, deployment and testing solutions

-Use and implementation of modern front end web programming techniques, such as HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, REST, JSON

-Experience with a web programming framework such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Scala / Play etc.

-Experience developing and using web-based APIs (especially REST-based APIs)

-Experience with open source solutions and community

-Understanding of Semantic Web technologies

-Experience using and deploying on Cloud based platforms

-Experience sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team

please send your CV for immediate consideration

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