Head of Software Engineering and Architecture

**Head of Software Engineering and Architecture - Meriden - GBP up to £85,000**

This is an amazing opportunity to start an exciting role in a rapidly-growing software company

This role is **mainly remote** and requires you to **come into the office once a week in Meriden.**

You will lead, and work directly with, a number of the sprint teams, driving design and architecture transitions for multiple product verticals, help the company drive continuous improvement in the engineering environment itself, provide coaching and technicalleadership and help senior leadership with technical options and support business cases to help us move forward.

**Responsibilities**:

- Be an active contributor to the execution of Digital and Technology strategy, representing technology perspectives at a management and local board level through strong technical thought leadership and process-centric mindset.
- Line manage, coach, and support the ongoing development of software team members (currently 12 permanent).
- Help manage and maintain supplier relationships and consultancy initiatives
- Own and evolve the architectural roadmap and software engineering process aligning with, and supporting the ongoing evolution of regional strategy
- Promote continuous improvement mindset by executing incremental and ongoing improvements to the engineering environment, CI/CD Pipeline, infrastructure, and security driving productivity and waste reduction.
- Drive cloud adoption through gaining agreement to embed new architectural patterns.

**Skills**:

- Strong leadership, software architecture, and software development skills
- Familiarity with new technologies and know where it's appropriate to use them
- Demonstrable experience in software development within a SaaS oriented development environment
- Ability to think iteratively and in terms of architectural boundaries.
- Domain-driven design experience - demonstrable ability to decompose problems and create opportunities to solve them in a sustainable manner.
- Track record in delivering agile engineering of software.
- Clear understanding and experience of DevSecOps, how to adapt and drive forward in product engineering teams.
- Experience with working with microservices (we use Azure FaaS and.NET Core and are exploring wider into Serverless and AWS.)

**Tools and Technologies they currently use**:

- NET, VS.Code, Rider, Resharper
- ADO and TFS - moving to Jira
- C#,.NET Core, ASP.NET, REST/SOAP services
- Web frontend - JQuery, Bootstrap and CSS, React.JS
- Azure FaaS, CosmoDB, AWS EC2 (API Gateway and Lambda experiments taking place.)
- SQL Server
- TFS, ADO, and Gitlab
- Dapper, Log4Net
- AutoFac, MSTest
- Slack and Confluence
- CI /CD - ADO & Octopus Deploy, GitLab runners
- Sonar Qube
- Splunk & Dynatrace
- Tableau
- TFS, MTM, SpecFlow, Selenium WebDriver, JMeter, Gurkin

**This is an insight into what technologies they use, you are not expected to have experience in all of these technologies but are expected to have experience in some.**

**Benefits**:

- 10% bonus scheme
- Company car
- Company pension scheme
- Vitality healthcare
- and much more

**URGENT ROLE - IMMEDIATE INTERVIEWS - FAST OFFERS**

**Role**: Head of Software Engineering and Architecture
**Salary**: GBP up to 85,000 DOE
**Location**: Remote - Meriden office once a week

Keywords: Head of Software, Head of Architecture, Head of IT, DevSecOps, NET, VS.Code, Rider, Resharper, ADO, TFS, Jira, C#,.NET Core, ASP.NET, REST/SOAP services, JQuery, Bootstrap, CSS, React.JS, Azure FaaS, CosmoDB, AWS EC2, TFS, ADO, Gitlab, Dapper,Log4Net, AutoFac, MSTest, Slack, Confluence, CI, CD, GitLab, Sonar Qube, Splunk, Dynatrace, Tableau, TFS, MTM, SpecFlow, Selenium WebDriver, JMeter, Gurkin

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