Lead Software Engineer

Lead Engineer Hybrid – Newcastle/Leeds  We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Engineer to join the team. The Lead Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader driving engineering excellence and setting high coding, design, and delivery standards here at Parkdean Resorts. You’ll influence the technical direction of products, and ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with the wider IT strategy.   What you will be doing:  Technical Leadership: Drive high-quality, maintainable coding and solution design. You’ll own technical design for key features and components, ensuring alignment with architectural standards. As well as providing hands-on expertise across C#, ASP.NET, React, Azure services, SQL Server, and integration patterns. Team Management & Coaching: Line manage and mentor developers, fostering technical growth, confidence, and a collaborative engineering culture. Collaboration & Delivery: Partner with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Test, DevOps, and Data teams to ensure robust, scalable, and high-quality releases. Quality, Automation & DevOps: Champion automation across testing, build, deployment, and monitoring.  Out-of-Hours Support: Participate in critical incident support, restoring services with minimal disruption, coordinating follow-ups, and driving continuous improvement.  About you Some of the skills and experience we are looking for:   Strong hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET, and modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React). Proven experience building secure, scalable, high-performance web applications. Strong working knowledge of Azure cloud services. Experience mentoring or leading developers. Solid understanding of unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.  Whatever you do, please don’t filter yourself out We are often flexible when considering an applicant’s skills and experience for a role. So, don’t be put off if you don’t tick all the boxes.    So, why Parkdean Resorts? Well, besides the one-of-a-kind team culture, stunning locations across the UK, and the chance to work with the UK's largest holiday park organisation, we can offer:  The chance to develop your skills and boost your career across our 65 parks - we’ve got your back when it comes to trainingYou’re never on your own with our Employee Assistance Programme It comes with a 24/7 confidential helpline for counselling and support - because your wellbeing is our top priority. A 50% discount for you and a 25% discount for friends and family when booking your holiday with us. A team member discount of 30%, available on everything from fabulous food to delicious drinks and even our fun leisure activities on-park. Score awesome discounts From tasty meal kits like Hello Fresh to your favourite local gyms, we’ve got deals on lots of brands just for you.  We want to be a force for good and caring for our parks, people, and planet is a natural component of the way we do business. We celebrate our people, communities and natural environment, enabling us to enhance the amazing memories we create for many years to come.  Are we the right fit for you?   At Parkdean Resorts we don’t leave unforgettable moments to chance.    We pitch in, we have fun, and we grow, inspiring each other to make great things happen every, single, day. We’re Parkdean people, and we do everything we can to ensure our guests and owners create amazing memories.  Parkdean Resorts is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Background checks including DBS (or equivalent) will be carried out if appropriate.     We want to do all we can to create an environment and recruitment process where people feel safe and comfortable to talk about disability. For any reasonable adjustment requests as part of the recruitment and assessment process, please contact Holly at (email address removed)             Please note that you’ll require the right to work in the UK, as we’re unable to provide sponsorship for this role.                            PandoLogic. Keywords: Senior Software Engineer, Location: Sunderland, ENG - SR1 1DH