Head of Engineering

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Lead the Future of Public Services as Head of Engineering – Drive Innovation, Collaboration, and Transformation in a Dynamic Government Environment

Are you an experienced engineering leader passionate about driving technical strategy and delivering impactful solutions? We are seeking a Head of Engineering to lead teams in the public sector, building secure, scalable, and user-centered services and you will be responsibility as follows,

· Be an advocate for a collaborative, positive working environment where software engineers recognise and value the contributions of others and actively support success of the whole team
· Lead in driving the technical strategy for the Client’s systems, aligned with organisation objectives, balancing business need, resilient engineering, recruitment and budgets
· Drive delivery and leading in software development, ensuring solutions adhere with architectural principles and software design standards
· Coach, mentor and train teams and individuals to improve software development practices, focusing on engineering practices and remove/avoid single points of failure
· Balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity in role and responsibility
· Introduce new efficient processes and concepts in a continuously delivering DevOps environment
· Deliver within Government Digital Service Standard
· Deliver solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices
· Incrementally replace enterprise legacy systems, including corporate finance systems
· Promote and ensure adherence to modern software development practices

Essential Skills:
· Experience of working with and building Java and Spring Boot based microservices
· Experience of working with public cloud technologies (for this role, we require at least 2 years AWS experience in the past 5 years)
· Experience of TDD and Unit-Test tooling
· Experience of leading engineering teams within Government projects to deliver/enhance public facing services
· Able to identify efficiencies to be materialised by adapting ways of working and/or methods of delivery
· Demonstrable experience in managing both own workload and competing priorities, and of engineers under your leadership
· Familiar with JavaScript and best-practice approaches
· Demonstrable experience of driving engineering teams to project completion whilst ensuring adherence to Government and industry standards.
· Demonstrable experience in mentoring and conducting knowledge transfer to junior permanent in-house staff

Desired Skills:
· Ability to review, identify gaps in and keep up to date engineering onboarding documentation to ensure staff can land and learn the landscape as efficiently as possible
· Ability to create, or ensure the community can create documentation for common practices, e.g. a runbook on how to create a new Java Service, which disciplines to engage, how to promote through the path to live
· Experience of working with MariaDB, AWS AuroraDB or MySQL
· Experience with Government security control requirements

This is a contract position/ Hybrid working with an initial 6-month term, potentially extendable. The candidate must be eligible for BPSS clearance and require active SC Clearance.
If you’re interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your CV

We look forward to reviewing your application and discussing how you can make a significant impact in this pivotal role.

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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