Role - Engineering Lead
Duration - End of year with likely extension into 2025
Location - Glasgow 2 days Hybrid
We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who required a Engineering Lead for one of their Clients based in Glasgow (Hybrid).
IR35: This role is Inside of IR35
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Key skills needed
- Data - essential - all aspects including principles, relationships, integrity, lineage, quality assessment, Events and data in motion
- ServiceNow - knowledge of, but not essential Knowledge of end-to-end IT change life cycles and asset management is required ie Component technologies vs Applications vs Systems
- Automation - scaled automation of functional and non-functional tests in the context of Guardrails/Fitness Functions rather than business functionality
- DevOps - essential - GitLab - Technologies for the work hasn't been explicitly chosen, but is likely to include:
- APIs (REST)
- KAFKA - events are likely to be used across the future solution
- Python - analytics
- AWS, SQL, Python, Java
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.