Technical Engineering Lead / Head of Engineering - Contract Inside IR35- Leeds / London

This role will be the central engineering lead for a growing Healthcare Digital Service. Accountable for the deliveries of all of our full stack, DevOps and quality engineers.

A typical day might include:
1. Dipping into squad agile ceremonies spotting opportunities to bridge and enable
2. Driving technical strategy and ensuring it aligns with the needs of the business
3. Dealing with stakeholders across product, delivery, operations, commercial and senior leadership
4. Ensuring technical roadmap includes debt recovery, infrastructure, and quality improvements
5. Line management and mentoring of engineering leads
6. Measurement and improvement with DORA metrics, SLOs and OKRs.
7. Managing the run cost of our platform using FinOps principles
8. Small pieces of coding that prove new ground, enable the team, or exemplify good practice

1. You have led and managed teams or an individual contributor with excellent mentoring & coaching skills
2. You are comfortable traversing strategic to fine-grained in the same conversation
3. Diverse architectural experience (multi-channel content/service based/data pipelines)
4. You know which levers accelerate delivery
5. Experience of accelerating/de-risking delivery with DevOps practices (TDD, CD pipelines, configuration management etc..)
6. Critical thinking on when to build vs buy
7. Cloud native in AWS, GCP or Azure

Desirable
1. Experience of taking teams from established to excelling
2. Experience throughout the stack with .NET/C#, Rest API, Typescript/React, Python, Node.js, and to a lesser extent Ruby on Rails
3. Knowledge of SRE practices for incident management & blame free post-mortems
4. Your full stack extends to Serverless, Terraform and Kubernetes