Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead - eSC/eDV Cleared in Leicester

We are looking for a Senior Developer who is aspiring to become a Technical Architect. The role involves leading the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and high performing cloud solutions, primarily on AWS or Azure. The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior engineer with strong architectural thinking who is ready to step up into a broader technical leadership role. They should have practical experience with modern application architectures, infrastructure automation, and cloud native engineering within Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and lead the design of cloud based architectures that prioritise scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs and work with stakeholders across engineering, product, and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership across full stack development, microservices, distributed systems, event driven patterns, and cloud native application design.
• Use major cloud platform services (AWS or Azure) to build robust, secure, and cost effective solutions.
• Apply cloud Well Architected Framework principles to ensure best practice implementation.
• Support and lead application modernisation efforts including containerisation, serverless adoption, refactoring, and cloud migration.
• Guide teams in CI/CD pipeline creation, automation practices, DevOps workflows, and infrastructure as code.
• Produce architecture diagrams, documentation, standards, and reusable design patterns.
• Work closely with developers, cloud engineers, product owners, and business leaders within Agile delivery teams.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Cloud: AWS or Azure (core compute, storage, networking, API, serverless, and managed database services)
• Architecture: Microservices, distributed systems, event driven and serverless patterns
• Containerisation: Kubernetes (EKS or AKS), Docker, Helm
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM, Ansible
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, Git platforms
• Databases: Relational (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (DynamoDB or Cosmos DB), optional graph/vector stores
• Monitoring & Observability: Cloud native monitoring tools (CloudWatch or Azure Monitor), Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana
• Security & Governance: IAM/RBAC, Key Vault/KMS, cloud security services, policies, secrets management

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Desirable certifications: AWS or Azure Solutions Architect (Professional/Expert level preferred), DevOps Engineer certifications, Kubernetes certifications (CKA), Terraform certification, Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman), Red Hat Certified Architect (optional)

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Benefits

• At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications.
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• 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, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.