Software Development Team Lead

The Software Development Team Lead will provide Line Management and Technical leadership to a team of software engineers, in addition to being the technical expert and providing some ‘hands-on’ development activities. They will be accountable for the overall direction and operations of the technical stack within their functional and/or product area. In addition, they will ensure that their team has the right skills, experience and capacity required to support the delivery of technical change across their functional and/or product area and provide technical coaching to ensure the engineering skills cross the team are maintained and developed in line with our strategy.

Key accountabilities:

Providing Line Management for a team of engineers, including:

• performance management, through the setting and tracking individual and team objectives.

• the recruitment and onboarding of new resource.

• tracking of employee engagement metrics and contributing to initiatives to further improve.

• providing excellent leadership to help people perform at their best, through motivating and developing them to achieve high performance.

• ensuring the team are clear on their direction and purpose.

• setting standards and expectations for quality, accuracy and timeliness.

• Provide senior technical leadership and innovation to a team of software engineers

You can find the full job description in the attached role profile below

Skills, qualifications, and experience

• Educated to Degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.

• Significant experience of leading and managing at team and technical level.

• Substantial experience of leading software development within multiple frameworks using:

• C#, Web API, MVC, Front end frameworks (e.g. Angular), REST

• SQL with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

• Automated tests and deployments

• Visual Studio, Git, Atlassian tools; Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo

• Continuous integration and deployments

• Cloud based solutions, specifically AWS

• Be able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Comfortable working in a dynamic, large-scale agile change initiative with multiple technologies.

• Expert/extensive technical knowledge with proven experience in leading technical design discussions and managing quality control.

• Previous significant experience of hands on development with a demonstrable career in software engineering with enterprise cloud based applications.

Pacakge

Salary – up to £60,000

• Purpose-driven work in a charity-led organisation connecting people to education and opportunity 

• Internal training, mentoring, and access to industry-recognised certifications through our development academies 

• Hybrid working model built on trust and flexibility, with a 35-hour week and flexible contracts 

• 30 days annual leave, 3 concessionary days over Christmas, bank holidays, and the option to purchase additional leave 

• Everyday wellbeing support through Perkbox, offering discounts and wellness tools 

• Onsite facilities including a free gym, subsidised café, and free parking at our Cheltenham office 

• Inclusive culture supported by employee networks, wellbeing champions, and Mental Health First Aiders 

• Recognition and reward through our quarterly employee scheme and an ex-gratia bonus for going above and beyond 

If you have any questions and would like to find out more about the role before applying
please email the Talent Acquisition team via careers@ucas.ac.uk and one of us will be in touch. 

How to apply

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