Tech Lead - Lead Senior Cloud Developer

The Company

Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values; Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.

Why This Role Matters

The role will be responsible for working with the Global Head of Engineering and the architecture team to understand strategic direction, then planning and leading the implementation of desired functionality with their team. All deliveries will be hosted in an Azure environment with a strong emphasis on performance, automation, monitoring and logging, and security, and therefore candidates need to possess a solid understanding and extensive experience of working in a modern Cloud environment including DevOps and CI/CD processes.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Design and development of highly performant public facing REST APIs and associated system integrations in an Azure hosted environment
• Documentation of APIs conforming to the Open API 3.x framework
• Leading and steering the direction of a small, dedicated team, including building team alignment, code reviews, design workshops, story/ticket elaboration, etc.
• Review existing legacy implementations and input from the architecture team, and building appropriate solutions on the new platform following best practices
• Provide recommendations of new technologies or tools to ensure that the new platform is developed, tested and hosted in the most secure, scalable manner
• Provide guidance on tools and recommendations for the automation of testing and deployments of all deliverables

What you’ll bring to the team

• Educated to Degree Level, preferably in Computer Science or related subject or demonstrable industry experience
• Azure Certifications an advantage
• C#, Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Service Bus, Azure Function Apps, Azure APIM, Azure Front Door, Auth0, WebSockets
• Strong development experience in C# and .NET core technologies built up across a range of different enterprise-grade projects
• Experience of designing APIs from the ground up which conform as much as possible to REST principles in terms of Resources, Sub Resources, Responses, Error Handling
• Experience of API design and documentation using Open API 3.x / YAML / Swagger
• Hands on experience of development, deployment and support within an Azure Environment
• Development of Azure functionality that utilises the best in breed security and authorisation concepts
• Creation and maintenance of build and release automation (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Performance tuning of APIs and Azure Functions
• Ability and willingness to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-changing environment, with a strong interest in continuous improvement and delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a good understanding of the best practices and the importance of Test Automation processes
• Some familiarity with AWS, and especially ElasticSearch would be beneficial but not mandatory.

What’s great about working for us

• 25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave
• Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 2nd Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family
• Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on
• Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you
• Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about
• Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable)
• Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues
• Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year)
• Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s)
• Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members
• Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost)
• Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months
• Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling
• Eyecare vouchers (once a year)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Seniorcare by Lottie, a comprehensive eldercare solution
• Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops
• Robust family first policy:

• 16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave
• Four-day week, for eight weeks, at full pay on return from Maternity Leave
• Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year
• The Stork Club: Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea…

Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time.

Close Date: 20th July

About Us

Christie’s is the world’s leading art business. Since 1766, we are known for our extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise, as well as international glamour. Every year, we offer around 350 live and online auctions in over 80 specialist categories – including all areas of fine and decorative arts, Asian art and luxury collectables – as well as a long and successful history of private sales. Contact us in 46 countries, or visit one of our 10 international salerooms in London, New York, Hong Kong, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai, Zürich and Shanghai.