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Role: Engineering Manager
Start Date: August 2025
Contract Length: 12 Months
Work Location: Remote
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: SC & NPPV3 Cleared
Join a major government programme where you’ll lead multiple engineering teams, develop critical digital services, and support 24/7 live systems. This is a leadership role within a SAS team, focused on building high-quality applications and infrastructure using modern engineering practices.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor teams of engineers across complex digital service projects
- Engage with senior business and technical stakeholders
- Provide technical assurance on design, risk mitigation, and standards compliance
- Shape and refine engineering backlogs and develop user stories
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Contribute to and maintain critical service applications in production
- Support development of microservices with focus on security, scalability and reliability
- Ensure best practice in code quality (TDD, SOLID principles, peer reviews)
- Support API architecture, observability, and service monitoring
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota (Level 3 support)
Required Experience:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams on complex digital projects
- Excellent knowledge of at least one 4GL, object-oriented analysis and design
- Experienced in backlog refinement & preparing user stories
- Familiarity with DDaT frameworks, GDS standards & SOLID / best practices
- SC Cleared & Eligible for NPPV3 clearance
Desirable Skills:
- JavaScript / Vue.js & PHP/Drupal & WordPress (database tuning, CDN, caching)
- Knowledge of AWS DevOps principles & Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Git
- C#, Java (Springboot, JPA/Hibernate), REST APIs, observability & monitoring, queue technologies & security
- History working on building new, evolving, high availability microservices with data integrity
- Strong understanding of test methodologies: JUnit, TDD, Integration Tests & E2E
- Experience working with relational databases: PostgreSQL
