Technical Lead in Belfast

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join our Digital Data & Cloud Practice. Our Digital Practice is expanding rapidly and offers opportunities to achieve medium- and long-term career goals. You will work on large-scale transformational and migration projects in both public and private sectors.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining cloud-based software applications.
• Providing technical leadership within a team to coordinate and deliver scalable, secure solutions that follow industry best practices (code quality, CI/CD, security, etc.).
• Working within an agile delivery methodology.
• Owning technical aspects of a product or solution, including design, estimation, shaping and user story/requirement creation.
• Documenting solutions (architecture, configuration, release, support-handover).
• Collaborating and liaising with Version 1 and customer stakeholders/end-users throughout the software development lifecycle (PMs, BAs, testing, product, etc.).
• Communicating technical designs simply and clearly in conversation, documentation, and presentations to stakeholders of varying technical levels.
• Providing effective knowledge transfer to team members and customers.
• Managing, coaching and developing junior team members and the wider community.
• Fostering a positive working environment and facilitating team collaboration and communication.

Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of coding best practices and modern architectural patterns, including microservices and message-driven architectures.
• Hands-on developing/coding experience using the following technologies: Frontend (Angular), Backend (.NET, C#).
• Understanding of non-functional requirements and experience developing applications with this in mind.
• Strong experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD), writing unit and integration tests to ensure high-quality code and maintaining a robust testing suite for continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience developing REST-based APIs.
• Strong experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible, Packer, Docker).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift for containerisation and orchestration of applications.
• Experience developing and deploying solutions on AWS Cloud, with expertise in Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and EC2 (AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect preferred).
• Ability to lead and coordinate stakeholder engagements and meetings.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

Benefits:

• Share in our success with a Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme.
• Strong career progression and mentorship through Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes and a dedicated quarterly Pathways career development programme.
• Flexible/remote working to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Financial wellbeing initiatives: pension, private healthcare cover, life assurance, financial advice and an employee discount scheme.
• Employee wellbeing schemes: gym discounts, bike to work, fitness classes, mindfulness workshops, employee assistance programme, generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance and incentives for certifications and accreditations (AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat).
• Reward schemes including Annual Excellence Awards and a ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives, allowing involvement in local fundraising and development opportunities to foster diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• And many more exciting benefits.

Equal Opportunities: Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring, including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.