This role is within the newly formed Digital Delivery Hub, based in our client's Leeds office. The Hub is part of the Digital Product function, which sits within their tech division.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new initiative. As a hands-on technical lead, you'll work within an agile, multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with developers, testers, agile leads, and product owners to deliver innovative digital products and demonstrate technical excellence. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping a new engineering approach for how our client delivers digital products.

Role overview:

• This is a hands-on role where you will be undertaking development alongside managing and guiding the development of your team, providing direction and oversight of the technical delivery for the digital products you are responsible for
• Actively working on Java and Angular codebase to implement new features and requirements working in partnership with the Product Owners and Architects
• Help establish and follow a set of engineering concepts and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in the engineering process are upheld by efficiently and effectively completing code reviews and feedback to teams
• Assist with Service support during office hours - Identifying, locating and proactively fixing faults
• Provide mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff to enhance and improve the team's capability
• Bring an energetic and proactive approach to tackling complex technical issues, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous learning within the team

Tech overview:

• Technical experience of one or more of the following - Kotlin/Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Angular, AWS
• Experience of managing and mentoring teams, combined with strong stakeholder management and an ability to communicate effectively at all levels within an organisation
• Able to establish a series of engineering best practices and implementing them across multiple teams
• Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking, capable of tackling complex technical issues
• Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns and best practices, with a focus on creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient systems