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Lead Technical Recruiter (Digital Data and Technology DDaT) - for Engineering, Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) and UCD Professions at UK Home Office

Application Deadline: Monday 28th July at 23:55pm

The Lead Engineer will drive the technical delivery of their team, managing their workload and ensuring the right skills are available. You will be responsible for the work undertaken by your Developers and DevOps staff and will be expected to work with Seniors and Principals to ensure that services produced are best practice. You should have a solid technical background and will be able to apply these skills if required to provide guidance to your team. You will also maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments such that you can support strategy formation.

Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area, you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate, endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders, to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis. Your remit may be across the engineering function, but working closely with Architects and other professions.

What will you be doing?

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Leading the day-to-day activities of engineers in your team, ensuring everyone is working effectively and efficiently, reporting any impediments.
• Coaching your team as well as supporting Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and encouraging formal professional qualifications.
• Supporting capability build in your team and in the organisation.
• Taking a hands-on role with engineering delivery when necessary, blending your leadership and technical tasks to achieve team objectives.
• Ensuring appropriate methods are being used, as well as leading efforts to identify improved tools/technologies.
• Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.

Your skills for this role

As a Lead Engineer you will have experience of:

• Leading an agile team to deliver in a dynamic environment, whilst managing stakeholders’ expectations and mitigating/escalating risks (Lead essential criteria).
• Oversight of technical designs produced by engineers and architects, ensuring that these are scalable, secure and fit for purpose.
• Providing technical expertise and ensuring best practice across the entire software development life cycle including use of tooling and CI/CD.
• Line management, task management and target setting for engineers in your team, including management of poor performance.
• Implementing training plans for engineers to meet the strategic goals of the organisation, whilst supporting capability build and recruitment activities.
• Initiating improvements to processes in the areas of security, sustainability, and quality of service.

See advert for full details of the role!

• Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
• Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
• Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
• Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.

Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office Careers

Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology, Engineering, and Design

• Industries

  Software Development, Government Administration, and Engineering Services

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