We are Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings in the market.
A role like this doesn't come around too often and could just be the career move that you're looking for. What's better than a role which is highly rewarding and socially fulfilling?
As a Lead Integration developer you will Provide an expert level of software development skills capable of building software for systems of any size and complexity and achieve customer satisfaction criteria through management of a team. Team members may be customer and company workforce. Individuals have a direct influence on profitability either as managers or as experts in a particular field. The field can relate to a variety of areas such as knowledge of a particular industry, technology, product, profession or skills area such as sales, account management or purchasing. Individuals could be contributors with specialist expertise or responsibility for the management of others. Roles at this level will typically be responsible for the provision of advice on policy implementation through such activities as scenario planning or resource modelling to inform strategic choices in decision making. The consequences of decision making would be operationally focused within a strategic framework.
What will you be doing: - Product backlog delivery
- User Story elaboration
- Unit test case production and execution
- Design, Code and Test review/inspection
- Support complete product development lifecycle from initiation to transition to service
- Liaise with Solution and Technical Architects to ensure traceability of requirements adoption through code and platform deliverables
- Technical impact assessments
- Contribute to effort estimation and project planning activity
- Ensure software configuration management processes and tooling standards are adopted and adhered to.
- Participate fully within the Agile delivery framework, enabling timely management and delivery of the Product backlog.
What you'll bring: - SC Security clearance or the ability to be cleared
- Agile / Dev Ops experience
- Excellent working experience of a broad range of integration technologies ideally having extensive experience of FUSE and/or AWS API
- System integration patterns (SOA, MicroServices, ETL, ESB, File Transfer), HTTP, XML and JSON API Gateways and SOAP / RESTful web services
- will have expert knowledge of the latest developments and future strategy for their technology area, and an awareness of its application within past and present Sopra Steria engagements. Knowledge and experience of associated software engineering tools, techniques, methods within their specialist area.
- Demonstrable experience of working as a Lead or Senior Software Engineer on large or complex software engineering programmes / projects with multiple software development teams.
- Project / team leadership of multiple software development teams.
- Effective task delegation
- Robust documentation and record-keeping
- Willingness to line manage junior development staff and to assist in the development of the technical practice
It'd be nice if you had: If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Role: Full Time - Permanent
Location: Hybrid
Security Clearance Level: SC (Eligible for SC clearance)
Internal Recruiter: Kanwal Toor
Salary: £65,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund. Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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