Lead AWS Developer

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you\’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM is currently seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead Developer to join our team, with a focus on serving the public sector. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in full-stack development, with a strong preference for those well-versed in Amazon Web Services (AWS).As a Lead Developer, you will guide IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customised systems in an agile environment.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor\’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of developers in designing, coding, testing, and implementing new software applications or significant enhancements to existing ones.
• Oversee the entire software development life cycle, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and in accordance with quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope and objectives, and translate them into technical requirements.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Leverage your AWS expertise to design, deploy, manage, and scale applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrate leadership by driving best practices and enhancing development processes.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience as a Lead Developer or similar role, with a minimum of 5 years in software development.
• In-depth knowledge of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end technologies.
• Extensive experience working in the public sector, understanding its unique challenges and requirements.
• Proficiency with AWS services, including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and more. Experience with serverless architectures is a plus.
• Strong leadership and team management skills. Ability to motivate and coach team members effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think algorithmically.
• Bachelor\’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field. An advanced degree would be advantageous.

Desirable Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional level.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or Professional level.
• Any relevant IBM certifications would be beneficial.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

Lead AWS Developer

Job ID

17179

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Gloucestershire

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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