My client is a global IT consultancy working alongside a intelligence client, they are looking for a Technical Lead to work on site in London

6 Month contract

£700pd inside ir35

This role requires DV Clearance, please do not apply if you are not DV Cleared

We are currently looking for a Technical Lead to help with the delivery of ambitious and novel software solutions - being able to think outside of the box to overcome technical challenges is essential!

The role offers fantastic opportunities to work on leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and will provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all of the mandatory requirements, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
This role is an exciting opportunity to help set technical direction and provide technical leadership for highly motivated and talented development teams.

Mandatory requirements:
Experience of building, leading and mentoring development teams.
Comprehensive experience of developing using modern development languages (eg Java, Go, Python etc) with code written to a common standard.
Experience of public cloud technologies (either AWS, GCP, Azure) and principles, in particular Infrastructure as Code.
Ability to translate user requirements into technical requirements.
Excellent interpersonal skills and able to communicate with Clients, CGI management and software engineers.
Experience of System Testing and experience of automated testing - eg unit tests, integration tests, mocking/stubbing.
Experience of using Kubernetes and/or OpenShift as a deployment platform and day-to-day development environment.
Good understanding of and experience with Modern DevOps methodology and technologies.
Experience of automation/configuration management (ie Ansible).
Experience of a version control system: eg Git.
Experience of continuous integration & analysis systems: eg Jenkins, SonarQube
Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies.
Able to write, review and assure technical documentation such as LLDs, user guides, release notes etc.
Experience with a wide variety of technologies, and ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies quickly.

Desirable Skills:
Experience of systems engineering and systems integration.
Experience of contributing to bids/proposals.
Front End development expertise with JavaScript and the REACT/MaterialUI framework