The Client: A government department client is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join them on a 9 month contract . This position will be hybrid with 2-3 days in client offices based around the UK. Job Summary: We are looking for outstanding Technical Leads who can make a positive impact, and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK. Let's be clear about the impact of your work the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service's monolithic architectures into microservices. You will be a hands-on technical leader, leading one of our teams that either: develop our agent or citizen facing digital systems; OR provide shared capabilities that allow us to build, assure, deploy and operate these services.

Essential Skills: Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of: Modern Software Engineering for Digital Products (ideally Java, micr...