Overview
Applications Technical Lead - Based in Newcastle - £80k up to £90k plus car or car allowance, plus bonus, pension, healthcare.
Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Newcastle office based two days per week - home based the rest.
Key tech & systems/application experience
- GitHub Copilot experience is essential
- Azure DevOps experience is essential
- SDLC experience is a must
This role will suit a Senior Developer and/or Tech Lead who can manage a team of three .NET/Oracle and SQL skilled developers. Plus, work closely with an outsourced development partner. Experience of this would be a massive bonus.
Essential skills & experience
- Strong technical understanding of business platforms
- Strong knowledge of .NET/SQL & Oracle
- Solid experience with enterprise integration patterns, API design, asynchronous messaging and data synchronisation
- Proven experience providing technical leadership across onshore and offshore teams, including line management responsibility
- Track record of improving engineering quality, release readiness and handover into live service
- Strong ability to review designs, identify risks and ensure solutions meet clear quality standards
- Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, secure design and modern delivery practices
- Experience working in blended delivery environments including permanent teams, contractors and System Integrators
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at different levels
Desirable experience
- Experience working on large scale enterprise programmes or platform transformations
- Broad understanding of architecture across data, mobile and security domains
- Familiarity with ITIL aligned operating models or service transition practices
Core responsibilities
- Define and maintain engineering standards, patterns and guardrails across business platforms, ensuring consistency in how solutions are designed and delivered
- Review and assure solution designs, identifying risks, poor practices or gaps, and supporting better decisions before build begins
- Assess delivery quality and readiness, ensuring solutions are maintainable, testable and prepared for smooth transition into live service
- Provide technical leadership across mixed delivery teams, acting as an escalation point and guiding engineering quality through influence and clarity
- Support release and transition readiness, ensuring documentation, knowledge transfer and support expectations are in place
- Work closely with engineering, product and operational teams to maintain alignment across design, build and ongoing support
Where will you be working?
There is little we don't do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
What's in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice - salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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