Staff Engineer

Management Level F The 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