Lead Software Engineer

Job reference number196487

Lead Software Engineer

Full time

Permanent

London

Job title – Lead Software Engineer - Java

The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Cutting edge technology is fundamental and key in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in both the UK and across Europe.

Our award-winning Technology team is at the heart of delivering a transformational journey at Royal Mail. The traditional letters business is declining, but our recent performance and the growth in parcels demonstrates that there is an opportunity for Royal Mail that we can capture, but we need to move quickly. By joining Royal Mail, you will be helping to implement meaningful change, pushing forward with our transformation to become a more agile and even more customer focused business, while delivering more innovation, products and services for our customers. You will be working for a brand that’s a household name and a critical part of the UK’s infrastructure.

Job Purpose

This role is a key enabler in allowing RMG to take technical leadership of its capability to build high quality software solutions that can operate at enterprise scale with significant transaction volumes, users and data. The Lead Software Engineer will bring strong software engineering capabilities to bear to influence the design and implementation of enterprise software solutions whilst also bringing line management and leadership skills to enable the wider software engineering team to deliver innovative software in a timely manner.

This role will be 50% split between team management/team mentoring and 50% hands on development. You will operate and think at a more strategic level

In this role you will be:

• Responsible for the design of software solutions in a complex IT estate
• Responsible for helping build, lead and retain a multi-disciplined team based on enterprise technologies
• Managing the software engineering team ensuring appropriate training, support and personal development
• Able to set up Agile development teams and ensure appropriate monitoring and reporting is available on progress
• Applying architectural and engineering concepts to implement solutions that meet business requirements, considering scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, flexibility, availability and manageability
• Able to create and interpret technical architectures using standard tools and techniques for modelling
• Identify the technologies to employ and take responsibility for the delivery of software solutions
• Assurance of supplier solutions to ensure compliance with requirements and procurements

Qualifications and experience required:

Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”
We are an inclusive employer with equality, diversity and fairness at the heart of our values and we’re proud to be recognised in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2020 for a 7th consecutive year. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
We are happy to support flexible working and would welcome having a conversation with you about how we could support your needs.
We are an inclusive employer with equality, diversity and fairness at the heart of our values. We welcome applications from individuals from all different backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

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