JOB DESCRIPTION
About The Role
We are recruiting Principal Python Developers to join our team. Principal Python Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Our Principal Python Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a principal consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.
Your role in nutshell:
Act as a technical SME within our engineering community to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
Lead on new business opportunities, writing technical bids and proposals
Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
Maintain client relationships and troubleshoot issues through collaboration
Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
Continuously reviews and prioritises the delivery teams workload and can anticipate the need for realignment with evolving operational prioritise and complex work-streams and assignments
Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
Lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
Ensure our Engineering community contributes to our business at a strategic level
Promote our Engineering team externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)
About the Candidate
Experience of operating as a technical leader on complex projects and able to manage stakeholder expectations and influencing decisions
Coaching and guiding others on the best way to achieve an optimal solution
Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
The full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
A full stack developer using Python, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular
Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
Expertise of Microservices design and architecture
Restful API Services experience
Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
Infrastructure As Code – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian
Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable
About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
Contributory pension scheme (company 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
Critical illness cover
Life assurance and death in service cover
Volunteer days
Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
Season ticket loans
Financial and general wellbeing sessions
Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
private health cover
private dental cover
additional company pension contributions
additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
wellbeing contribution
charity contributions
tree planting