Staff Software Engineer

Management Level FThe staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Lead Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.  Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 4 - Enable  Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home  Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products  Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality  Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required Foster optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs  Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed  Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team  Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.  Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline  Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill: Programming/software development PROG at Level 5  Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.  Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.  Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.  Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.  Education and Experience   Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.  Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems  Experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation  Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products  Professional Skills and Qualities   Agile Methodologies - Scrum  Efficiency improvement  Configuration management  Release readiness  Documentation / technical writing  Process, data, system engineering  Analytical - business, process, data, system  Lifecycle management  Problem solving  Personal Skills and Qualities   Emotional intelligence and empathy  Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism  Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation  Active listening and observation  Continuous learning  Language and communication  Creative thinking  Resilience, perseverance and patience  Ownership and dependability  Critical thinking  Time management  Decision-making  Technical Experience at Advanced Level   Full Stack development Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux BDD, TDD, Cucumber Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket) REST Services Database Design Responsive web design Dependency Injection Data access and persistence ORM frameworks Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices Web accessibility standards Web security principles SAST and DAST tools Content Management Systems Message queuing systems Application architecture Containers Micro Services Source code control Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines SQL, PL/SQL, C OAuth, Identity Server,  Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services Domain Knowledge   Experience in Financial Services preferred  Experience in Pensions welcomed  We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.