Senior Lead Software Engineer in Leeds

About us: Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place. Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

As a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at Informed Solutions, you’ll take overall technical ownership of large, complex digital solutions for the public sector. Your expertise will guide teams, influence technical strategy, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure services. Working collaboratively across Software Engineering, User-Centred Design, Delivery Management, and Data Science, you’ll shape enterprise-scale digital solutions, mentor colleagues, and drive innovation within the Engineering discipline.

This role offers flexibility to be based from our Altrincham (Manchester) or Westminster (London) offices, where you’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment, supported by our hybrid working approach.

• Take overall technical responsibility for high-quality engineering across large, complex services, from design through operation and continual improvement.
• Own the end-to-end architecture and design, producing and maintaining high-quality documentation and ensuring designs are effectively implemented.
• Work with Delivery Managers to plan complex technical activities, provide robust estimates, and proactively mitigate technical risks and issues.
• Provide technical assurance and mentoring for teams, supporting less experienced practitioners and maximising overall delivery quality and velocity.
• Drive innovation and best practice adoption across the Engineering community, motivating and empowering domain practitioners to create a positive and creative culture.
• Support the growth of our Engineering capability via recruitment, masterclasses, training, and curriculum development.
• Provide Practitioner Coaching and technical leadership to guide the development of other engineers.

Extensive experience leading Full Stack Engineering teams, with advanced skills in .NET or Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries. Experience leading delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, TDD), providing technical guidance and contributing to planning and estimation. Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, enabling high-quality, efficient delivery. Exposure to public sector projects and delivery in complex organisational environments.

Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working. Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines. Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.

This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset. We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support.

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

• InformedACADEMY™– We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working
• Private Health Care Cover
• Generous life assurance cover
• Gym Membership
• Monthly office lunch
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important. Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.