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Experienced technical professional, passionate about using your expertise and leadership skills to deliver world-class digital services to clients? Check out this opportunity at a leading Digital Agency – with package up to: £96k! 💪

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Softwire are a leading software consultancy with strong design and engineering credentials. They tackle challenges including developing a voicemail platform for a large international provider, building the UK’s voter registration system, and working with Moorfields Eye Hospital to better diagnose and treat eye disease through building a new cloud research platform. They are a team of over 200 who work to help their clients achieve their ambitions. They pride themselves on maintaining high standards of technical quality throughout their work.

The role

Technical Leads are responsible for the technical success of their projects, and for mentoring developers on the team. Typical project sizes range from 50 to 1,000 days and their projects span multiple sectors and technologies. You might:

Lead a team of 10 developers to migrate a legacy monolithic API to a cloud-based microservices architecture which can handle significant spikes in traffic, for a leading leisure brand

Collaborate with a product owner and designer to prototype a new product for a start-up

Guide the technical design and implementation of a system that helps match thousands of bone-marrow donors with suitable recipients for a national charity

You will take responsibility for ensuring they deliver a technical solution that achieves their client’s aims. You will mentor & motivate the developers on the team, collaborate with the client’s technical stakeholders, and work closely with delivery leads to ensure their projects are delivered on time and in budget.

You may also have involvement in meeting clients as part of the sales process and contributing to proposals by designing and estimating high-level technical solutions.

You are excited by delivering world-class digital services that have a real impact. You have a wide range and depth of technical knowledge and can use this to devise effective technical solutions to meet underlying user needs. You can take responsibility for the technical success of complex development projects.

You are a talented leader, who can direct and motivate teams, and you have a noticeable impact on the work produced by everyone on the team. You are a proactive and effective mentor of other team members, enabling them to learn quickly.

You have a wide range of knowledge about system architecture and design. You understand best practice principles and can draw on your experience to apply your knowledge quickly and effectively in novel situations. You understand the trade-offs involved in designing new systems, and can solve technical challenges while remaining sensitive to the business requirements of their clients.

You have great communication skills and are comfortable talking to senior technical & non-technical stakeholders, and end-users. You enjoy working closely with clients and helping them increase their technical maturity. You can project the knowledgeable, professional and client-focused image Softwire aspire to.

Do I fit the bill? 🕵️

Your approach

Experience and qualifications

You have strong experience and understanding in at least some of the following technologies:

You may also:

The exciting bits!

Additional benefits

What’s the culture like?

“We’re innovators. We’re passionate problem-solvers in both software engineering and digital design. We are dedicated. And we love what we do.

It all started when our founders Pete, Dan, and Phil realised that there was a better way to do things. A way that delivers results without squeezing the fun out of what we do. A way that is never corporate, but always professional.

When you work with Softwire, you’re not only becoming part of a team with in-depth technical skills and delivery expertise – you’re joining a team filled with passion, guile, and an absolute dedication to producing the best work possible.

Voted in the Sunday Times as one of the Top 100 Companies to Work For (now known as Best Companies), you’ll be working in a thriving environment full of innovation, devotion, and outright electricity.”

What we stand for

Here at Softwire, we hold four key values at the core of everything we do:

When we say we care, we honestly mean it. Our work is our passion, and eve-rything that comes through our doors is treated with the utmost respect and with the same level of care that we’d treat our own work. Because honestly – we really do care.

We’re not micromanagers. We place a level of trust in each member of our team to work their hardest and produce the best they can achieve. This is an innovative but fun place to work – and we trust that you’ll meet our standards.

Clients come to us with complex, exciting, but often challenging projects. And we are the friendly face that will help them reach their goals – and be with them for the long run. Our team is open, accepting, and always ready to accept new ideas. Because after all, in a world where being kind is free – why be anything but?

When you’re working at the forefront of technology, every day is different. And in this fast-paced environment, we realise that work isn’t always going to be fun. Some days can be stressful, but despite this, we know the importance of enjoying ourselves. Because at the end of the day, we spend a lot of time at work – so we might as well have fun while we’re there.”

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Softwire 🛍️

Softwire is an equal-opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender including gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

So, what are the next steps? ✏️

  1. Apply via Feisty
  2. Answer simple screening questions (to follow)
  3. Follow link (to follow) to complete your application

Softwire is a leading digital software consultancy. They offer services in software engineering, design, innovation, cloud, mobile and data.

Trusted by well-known organisations, including the BBC, David Lloyd Clubs, LNER and The Cabinet Office, Softwire has grown into a business that consistently delivers large, high-profile digital projects for the UK’s leading brands.