Lead Engineer / Developer

Responsibilities

• Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects

• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements

• Ensure compliance with security standards and agency policies

• Manage software development projects by fulfilling requirements, goals and timelines

• Contribute the engineering team’s budget requirements e.g. training / tool licensing

• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources

• Hire engineers and coordinate their training

• Implement innovative technologies

• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment

Requirements

• Work experience as a lead engineer or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department

• Experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computer interfaces

• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development in Drupal

• Good understanding of project management methodologies

• Leadership abilities 

• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field

• Acquia Certification

• Ability to contribute to the technical content required for project documentation

• Ability to contribute to the planning of projects

Drupal technical experience required

• Drupal setup, development, administration and configuration

• Experience with Acquia products and Drupal 7 - 9

• Hands-on custom module development including Drupal hooks.

• Experience with the Symfony framework

• Detailed understanding of using views, CCK, theming and multi-site development for localisation

• Currently in a technical role developing Drupal modules and administering Drupal sites

General technical experience required

• Proven experience with multiple development frameworks

• Broad understanding of server, security, and network configurations

• Experience with cloud based providers such as AWS

• Familiarity and experience using Git

• Demonstrable experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, SASS/LESS, and REST Frameworks.

• Experience managing technical risks and issues throughout the project

• Experience of PHP with MYSQL, composer and PHP dependency management

• Experience of PHP unit testing and frameworks, code reviewing, debugging and problem solving

• Preferable experience and understanding of building accessible websites to WCAG 2.1 standards and preferably the UK Government Design Principles

• Ability to review technical documentation and assess it for risk, ability to brief senior management on legal liabilities that might arise.

Managerial / Line management experience required

• Managing a team of 5+ backend and frontend developers

• Conduct code reviews with direct reports to ensure standards are upheld

• Work with direct reports to define technical solutions

• Support, inspire and mentor direct reports 

• Define development team weekly meetings

• Conduct 121 meetings with each direct report to define career paths

• Drive continuous performance improvements in the team

• Ability to manage the time and workload of the team to achieve agency goals