Lead Software Engineer (P2016N)
Homes England
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024
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The Lead Software Engineer will play a critical role in making a difference across the Digital Directorate. You will be joining our talented team of around 20 Engineers, who are committed to making a positive change in how we deliver technology.
Job description
This is a rare chance to shape the future engineering landscape in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional digital services team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of engineering challenges and the have the opportunity to help build first-class software solutions for Homes England.
You will work with digital, data and technology colleagues collaboratively, taking an innovative and creative approach to deliver key strategic projects and products. We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within our team.
There are exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst providing an environment to learn and stay up to date with current tools and technologies.
All new development is focussed on a cloud first approach, within Azure, utilising GitHub, Azure DevOps Pipelines and Azure Kubernetes Services.
Person specification
You are resilient and comfortable managing and communicating with stakeholders across the business. Your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an engineering team.
You enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way while delivering high quality solutions.
You will be comfortable leading, mentoring and developing engineers to ensure we are building and maintaining a well skilled team, while also championing collaboration with external partners to uphold our process and output standards.
You will be able to lead software engineers to design and deliver high quality, secure and pragmatic solutions. You will have significant experience of the Microsoft technology stack including .NET CORE/.NET Framework and Azure. You should be people focussed and able to coach and develop engineers at different stages of their career path.
Solutions you deliver should be reusable and scalable with a focus on consistency and maintainability. You will be able to review existing processes and improve them while thinking about better cost efficiency and performance. As part of this you should have a desire to learn and explore new technologies.
As an experienced Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage relationships with colleagues and your team and demonstrate you can work in a collaborative, inclusive way while mentoring and leading a small team.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
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Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
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Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
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Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
