Head of Engineering

6 days ago


Glasgow Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom Venesky Brown Full time

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Head of Engineering for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £745/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.


Responsibilities:


- Be an advocate for a collaborative, positive working environment where software engineers recognise and value the contributions of others and actively support success of the whole team

- Lead in driving the technical strategy for organisational systems, aligned with organisation objectives, balancing business need, resilient engineering, recruitment and budgets

- Drive delivery and leading in software development, ensuring solutions adhere with architectural principles and software design standards

- Coach, mentor and train teams and individuals to improve software development practices, focusing on engineering practices and remove/avoid single points of failure

- Balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity in role and responsibility

- Introduce new efficient processes and concepts in a continuously delivering DevOps environment

- Deliver solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices

- Incrementally replace enterprise legacy systems, including corporate finance systems

- Promote and ensure adherence to modern software development practices


Essential Skills:


- Experience of working with and building Java and Spring Boot based microservices

- Experience of working with public cloud technologies (for this role, we require at least 2 years AWS experience in the past 5 years)

- Experience of TDD and Unit-Test tooling

- Experience of leading engineering teams to deliver/enhance public facing services

- Able to identify efficiencies to be materialised by adapting ways of working and/or methods of delivery

- Demonstrable experience in managing both own workload and competing priorities, and of engineers under your leadership

- Familiar with JavaScript and best-practice approaches

- Demonstrable experience of driving engineering teams to project completion whilst ensuring adherence to standards

- Demonstrable experience in mentoring and conducting knowledge transfer to junior permanent in-house staff


Desirable Skills:


- Ability to review, identify gaps in and keep up to date engineering onboarding documentation to ensure staff can land and learn the landscape as efficiently as possible

- Ability to create, or ensure the community can create documentation for common practices, e.g. a runbook on how to create a new Java Service, which disciplines to engage, how to promote through the path to live

- Experience of working with MariaDB, AWS AuroraDB or MySQL


If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.


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