Hybrid Engineering Team Lead

at LDMS

• Job title: Engineering Team Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £60,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Jenkins, Oracle, Postgres, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cardiff, United Kingdom

About the role

• Engineering Team Lead managing a team to deliver financial software for LDMS. Overseeing project commitments and team performance with a focus on agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery commitments of the team and the performance of team members
• Organising delivery ceremonies (refinement, planning etc)
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement
• Balancing the capacity of the team between product and technical debt improvements
• Ensuring that software has been developed to the agreed appropriate level of quality
• Regular structured 1-2-1s
• Setting quarterly SMART objectives in line with business objectives
• Understanding and supporting career development
• Setting quarterly personal objectives
• Coaching attitudes and behaviours
• Providing visibility on progress and issues to Head of Product Engineering
• Single point of contact for the team
• Working closely with other Team Leads to ensure coordination of effort
• Providing a point of escalation for the team
• Facilitating team ownership of software, delivery & quality
• Running technical initiatives in a structured way alongside product delivery
• Knowledge sharing, both intra and inter team
• Identifying training requirements
• Ensuring the team produce documentation to the required standard

Requirements

• A solid understanding of agile software development practices and the art of software development
• Good verbal, written and communication skills
• A proven track record of delivering software projects
• Line management experience
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Hands on Java Engineering Experience (preferably Java 8+)
• Experience developing REST APIs with Java (preferably Java 8+) and Spring Boot (desirable)
• Knowledge of SQL DB’s, preferably Postgres or Oracle (desirable)
• Experience working with modern Continuous Integration tooling such as Jenkins (desirable)
• Experience with version control systems such as Git (desirable)

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday leave
• 1 day Charity leave
• Private Health Insurance
• EAP
• Pension (3% / 5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)