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