Lead Engineer, AVP

• Company Natwest Group
• No. of Openings 5
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

You’ll take responsibility for the work quality of the software engineering team, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output, as well as driving a culture of concise and comprehensive technical documentation as a continuous process.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Monitoring the technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance and providing updates to stakeholders
• Supporting and mentoring the team in the understanding of relevant software languages and technical domains
• Driving the adoption of software engineering principles, processes and best practices
• Liaising with engineers, architects, business analysts and other key stakeholders to understand the objectives, requirements and options
• Designing and developing high-volume, high-performance and high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as experience in providing technical leadership and accountability for a software engineering team. We’ll also look to you to have experience of test-driven development and the use of automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Knowledge of key phases of the software delivery lifecycle, and established software development methodologies
• Development experience in a programming language
• Experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling
• A background of implementing programming best-practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales