Technical Lead
PA Consulting1 year ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Steer technical teams through complex challenges and guide clients through successful digital transformations.
- Mentor engineers and foster continuous improvement.
- Shape and improve the full software delivery lifecycle across development, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and release management strategies.
- Improve system performance through load testing, caching, database-query optimization, and application-logic optimization.
- Apply TDD, contract testing, secure coding, event-driven architecture, and platform migration approaches.
- Provide technical subject matter expertise for bids and client proposals.
- Present proposed technical approaches and implementation plans to prospective clients.
Requirements
- Experience managing and technically leading a software engineering team.
- Ability to interact with clients and demonstrate credibility in technology and overall delivery.
- Proven capability shaping the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle.
- Ability to implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and efficient release management strategies.
- Expertise in performance optimization, load testing, caching, database queries, and application logic.
- Expertise in modern engineering standards and architectural patterns, including 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.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with at least two days per week in the office or on a client site, with assignments potentially requiring up to five days per week on a client site.
- Budget for technical and non-technical courses and opportunities to gain certifications.
- 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.
- Community and charity initiative opportunities.
- Annual performance-based bonus and PA share ownership.
- Tax-efficient benefits including cycle-to-work and give-as-you-earn schemes.
- Support for physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being.
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.