Lead Engineer role at the UK Home OfficeOverviewThe Lead Engineer will drive the technical delivery of their team, managing 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 to provide guidance to your team. You will also maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments to 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 and endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders to ensure 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.ResponsibilitiesLeading the day to day activities of engineers in your team, ensuring everyone is working effectively and efficiently; reporting impediments.Coaching your team and 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 leadership and technical tasks to achieve team objectives.Ensuring appropriate methods are used and leading efforts to identify and adopt improved tools/technologies.Your skills for this roleManaging multiple delivery-focused teams with competing priorities and timelines, ensuring adherence to standards within the team.Working with senior stakeholders to provide operational support to the portfolio in pursuit of challenging ministerial and legislative deadlines.Providing technical knowledge and best practices across cloud management, finops, and the complete CI/CD build process.Creating, executing, and delivering detailed roadmaps that include quality management and business capacity to ensure successful outcomes.Ability to interpret complex system designs and communicate these to technical and non-technical audiences.Mentoring colleagues in developing skills and capabilities in line with strategy, team, and personal goals.Why Join Us?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).Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.Learn more about our benefits: Benefits - Home Office CareersAdditional InformationThis role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.Ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact? Click "Apply" to explore the full job description and salary details.Seniority levelMid-Senior levelEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionEngineering, General Business, and Information TechnologyIndustries: Government Administration and IT Services and IT ConsultingReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at UK Home Office by 2x #J-18808-Ljbffr