Technical Lead
PA Consulting1 year ago
Belfast, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Steer technical teams through complex challenges and guide clients through digital transformations.
- Shape and improve the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle across development, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and efficient release management strategies.
- Improve system performance through load testing, caching, database-query optimization, and application-logic optimization.
- Apply engineering standards and architectural approaches including TDD, contract testing, secure coding, event-driven architecture, and platform migration.
- Mentor engineers and foster continuous improvement through collaborative problem-solving.
- Provide technical subject matter expertise for bids and client proposals and present technical approaches to prospective clients.
Requirements
- Experience managing and technically leading a software engineering team.
- Ability to interact credibly with clients and demonstrate expertise in technology and delivery.
- Experience shaping the full software delivery lifecycle and driving improvements across its phases.
- Ability to implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and release management strategies.
- Expertise in performance optimization, load testing, caching, database queries, and application logic.
- Knowledge of TDD, contract testing, secure coding, event-driven architecture, and platform migration.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and stakeholder-management abilities.
- Experience providing technical expertise for bids and client proposals and discussing implementation with prospective clients.
- Applicants for applicable UK roles must meet stated background-check, residency, and security-clearance requirements.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with at least two days per week in an office or on a client site, with some assignments requiring up to five days on site.
- Access to technical and non-technical training budgets, certifications, coaching, mentoring, and peer knowledge-sharing.
- Private healthcare and health and lifestyle perks.
- 25 days of annual leave plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve, with the option to buy five additional days.
- Generous company pension scheme, annual performance-based bonus, and PA share ownership.
- Tax-efficient benefits including cycle-to-work and give-as-you-earn schemes.
- Opportunities to participate in community and charity initiatives.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSAzureC#GitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptJenkins.NETNode.jsReactSpring BootTerraformTypeScriptVue.js
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About PA Consulting
PA Consulting is a management and technology consultancy that designs and delivers strategy, digital systems, and physical products for public- and private-sector clients. It works across defense and security, government, health and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, consumer, and transport markets. Founded in 1943 and headquartered in London, it operates globally and is majority-owned by Jacobs.