Hybrid Engineering Team Lead – Tech

at SIS International Research & Strategy Consulting

• Job title: Engineering Team Lead – Tech
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Java, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Python, RDBMS, Scala, SQL, Vue.js, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Engineering Team Lead at Savanta overseeing agile development on Vue research platform. Leading cross-functional teams to deliver client-driven solutions in a tech-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• You will work on our Vue research platform which helps us provide a full service to our wide range of clients.
• Lead up of 3 to 6 engineers working in a cross functional agile team alongside a product manager, UX designer and QA.
• Deliver the product roadmap.
• Manage a team of developers consisting of a range of ability and experience.
• Conduct regular 121’s, setting objective and assisting with tailored development plans.
• Mentor, support, and encourage our developers.
• Full stack development.
• Championing the best practice of Scrum at Savanta.
• Continuously improving the team’s processes for iterative development.
• Delivering a great user experience in the products you build.
• Finding ways to build fast, scalable, flexible systems without blowing the budget.
• Interacting directly with customers, understanding their needs, and generalising them.
• Working with staff engineers and others to define technical direction in a sequence of smaller, valuable chunks.

Requirements

• Experience leading agile rapid release iterations.
• Extensive experience specifically with C# and .NET, or experience in closely related languages (Java, Python, Scala) including modern functional idioms.
• A willingness to learn – new technologies, our business and platform, and ways of working – is an absolute must.
• Full product delivery mindset focused on a tested user experience.
• Encourages a test first approach as part of stories aiming for high automated coverage.
• Runs meetings such as project kick-offs, stakeholder check-ins, and retrospectives.
• Comfortable with some ambiguity and shifting priorities in your work environment, and comfortable with managed change.
• Confident in using spikes to de-risk work as well as guiding the team in iterating towards a long-term scalable architecture.
• Strong RDBMS experience and who knows at least one dialect of SQL well: e.g. you might have spent a lot of time with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
• Experience of cloud based data warehousing such as Snowflake or DataBricks
• Experience configuring Azure services (or AWS!)
• Experience/interest of informal leadership or formal management experience.
• Experience working with across team boundaries with stakeholders.

Benefits

• Unlimited annual leave
• Bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working practices
• Health & wellbeing package
• Ongoing Learning & Development
• Financial health (pension, life assurance, etc.)
• Team & Company Socials
• Committees for Health & Well Being, Charities & Volunteering and DE&I