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Description
About the Role
The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for all software deliveries across the Valorem Group, ensuring that every system, application, and service meets high standards of quality, security, scalability, and maintainability. You will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influence architectural direction, and ensure delivery approaches align with business priorities and organisational strategy. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep technical expertise with coaching, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination. You will set the engineering standard, contribute to complex areas of the codebase, and drive predictable, high-quality delivery across the group.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Technical Direction & Architecture
Provide technical leadership across all software deliveries within the Valorem Group
Define and uphold engineering standards, architectural patterns and best practices
Lead architectural decisions and ensure alignment with long-term strategy
Ensure technical debt is visible, prioritised and reduced
Hands-on Development
Contribute to complex and high impact areas of the codebase
Support implementation through pairing, code reviews and technical workshops
Set high standards for code quality, maintainability and security
Quality, Testing & Reliability
Ensure strong unit test coverage across all codebases
Improve quality gates in CI/CD and strengthen release readiness
Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis and long term corrective actions
Promote secure development and safe handling of data
Delivery Leadership & Execution
Lead delivery across multiple squads, aligning sequencing and integration
Break down complex initiatives into deliverable increments
Provide accurate reporting and forecasting on progress and risks
Remove blockers and ensure smooth technical execution across teams
Collaboration and Stakeholder Influence
Work closely with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders
Influence requirements and design decisions to ensure technical and business alignment
Strengthen cross-team communication and collaboration
Mentoring, Coaching and Capability Building
Mentor developers across levels, improving coding, design and delivery skills
Promote knowledge sharing through reviews, pairing and technical sessions
Support onboarding and career development within the engineering team
Process & Continuous Improvement
Identify systemic issues in engineering workflows and lead improvement initiatives
Enhance build pipelines, frameworks and developer experience
Lead initiatives that increase quality, efficiency and delivery predictability
Documentation
Ensure architectural decisions, system designs and operational documentation are well maintained
Promote high quality PR descriptions, technical notes and design documentation
Skills & Experience
Experience
Over 7 years of hands on software development experience delivering production systems
Proven experience leading engineering delivery across multiple workstreams or teams
Demonstrated experience mentoring developers and raising engineering capability
Technical Knowledge
Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, long term system design and technical trade offs
Strong capability in writing clean, maintainable, secure code and managing technical debt
Expertise in performance optimisation, system reliability, observability, and operational readiness
Strong proficiency in relevant programming languages and frameworks used within the organisation
API design, integration techniques, and event-driven and messaging patterns
Distributed systems and microservices
SQL/NoSQL data modelling, database performance, and data integrity
Secure coding practices, threat modelling, and data privacy requirements
Unit testing strategies
Ability to shape technical roadmaps and influence architectural decisions
Tools & Technologies
Advanced knowledge of Git workflows, PR standards and code review practices
Experience configuring and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Proficiency with monitoring, logging, tracing, and diagnostics tools
Awareness of AWS, containerisation and infrastructure concepts sufficient for technical leadership
Experience with Agile work tracking tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
Ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver technical work across multiple teams
Competence in estimation, dependency management, capacity planning and risk management.
Clear stakeholder management, expectation-setting and progress reporting
Experience leading cross-functional delivery with product, QA, DevOps and architecture.
Personal Attributes
Strong communicator, able to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Skilled at aligning teams around shared technical direction
Able to analyse and solve complex technical problems with clarity
Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
Drive to investigate issues deeply and identify root causes
Willingness to uphold engineering standards in challenging situations
Collaborative and dependable, offering help and asking for support when required
Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities
We are looking for someone with:
Engineering Mindset
• Designs with scalability, maintainability and operational excellence in mind
• Raises risks early with clear recommendations
• Challenges assumptions constructively to strengthen technical outcomes
• Takes ownership of improvement initiatives that enhance product quality and engineering efficiency
• Applies a strong business focus, aligning engineering strategy with business goals, customer outcomes and organisational priorities
Growth & Contribution
• Seeks feedback and applies it to improve leadership and technical depth
• Learns and adapts to different business viewpoints across the Valorem Group
• Stays current with industry trends and guides adoption of valuable improvements
• Communicates progress, risks, and blockers clearly and proactively
• Maintains transparency, accountability and consistent follow-through
• Maintains professionalism under pressure and supports constructive team dynamics
• Builds strong working relationships across engineering, product, QA, DevOps, and business teams
• Fosters a collaborative, supportive, and quality-driven engineering culture
What's In It For You?
Hybrid working post-training (3 days a week in office, 2 day at home)
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, this increases with your service
Refer and Earn - Employee referral scheme and bonuses
Family Friendly - Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and gift hampers for new parents
Employee Experiences - Social events and regular engagement activities, such as Christmas and Summer parties, in office events and competitions and long service awards. Activities for key inclusion events and wellbeing webinars. Internal employee recognition schemes such as employee of the month and end of year awards
Training & Development Opportunities - A huge range of internal and external training available, including apprenticeships (levels 3,4 & 5)
ESG & Sustainability - Cycle to work scheme, volunteering days, travel discounts and part of Manchester Liftshare Community platform
Exclusive access to Westfield Health access to different healthcare benefits and services, giving you money back towards essential health costs such as optical and dental treatments. Also included - 24hr DoctorLine service, Gym Discounts, offers on a wide range of goods and services from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations.
Mental health and Wellbeing Support - Employee Assistance Program providing up to 6 sessions of structured counselling and access to a variety of wellbeing resources including webinars, Health Checks, and podcasts. Access to mental health first aiders and much more
Free breakfast, fresh fruit and tea & coffee provided daily
About Dals
At Dals, we enable people and organisations to tackle critical language challenges every day. Our interpreting and translation services cover more than 500 languages, including BSL and other non-spoken languages. We connect clients and their service users with crucial expertise whenever and wherever they need it—because the world is a better, fairer place when everyone is understood.
Our people are our future, and we take care of them. Through community partnerships and social value initiatives, we continuously work to ensure Dals has a positive impact on the world.
Our Commitments
We are proud to be:
An Age Friendly Employer, welcoming applications from experienced professionals and supporting age diversity.
A supporter of the Armed Forces Covenant, encouraging applications from veterans, reservists, and their families.
A Disability Confident Employer, guaranteeing interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria and ensuring an inclusive recruitment process.
A Mindful Employer, promoting mental health awareness and fair recruitment practices in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Applicants must be UK residents and have permission to work in the UK. A basic DBS check is required for this role.
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