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Principal Developer (Defence)

Principal Developer (Defence)

  • Location

    Taunton

  • Sector:

    Technology & Digital

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £55000 - £57000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Jeffrey Barr

  • Email:

    jbarr@yolkrecruitment.com

  • Contact phone:

    02920 220078

  • Job ref:

    BH-27575

  • Published:

    about 2 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2022-02-11

  • Start date:

    2022-01-21

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

Principal Developer (Defence) - £57,000pa with £10,000 bonus – Hybrid - Taunton

Yolk Recruitment are sourcing for an exciting role as a Principal Developer to technically lead and co-ordinate work across our company’s entire defence portfolio. This is a hands-off technical role which requires detailed knowledge of software development and the technologies involved, but also the leadership skills to work with a range of different teams (developers, subject matter experts, members of the armed forces and other technical and management teams within our defence area).
 
Responsibilities include:

This role will involve technically coordinating, guiding as well as implementing and developing modern engineering practices across a wide range of products and services.
 
A typical day might include:
  • Taking part in a design meeting with colleagues from the Royal Navy around a new information service.
  • Designing a service that will need to be deployed into a secure cloud environment.
  • Chairing a meeting with stakeholders from the Army, Navy, and Air Force on implementation of a new product or service.
  • Providing guidance to a technical team within the Ministry of Defence on engineering standards.
  • Collaborating with colleagues across government on engineering standards.
  • Influencing teams on the adoption of good engineering practices.
  • Finish early because its Friday and has been a hard week!
 
This role is responsible for:
  • The detailed technical coordination of work across all of our Defence portfolio. deliverables.
  • Identifying and championing the adoption of technologies.
  • Alignment of all work with architectural and technology strategy, to both our company and wider Ministry of Defence standards.
 
This role will work with external suppliers, product owners, technical architects, delivery managers and business stakeholders to deliver at pace and to high quality.
 
 
Skills / Experience:

Essential:
  • Extensive experience of technically leading software development teams;
  • Extensive experience as a software developer
  • Experience in the delivery of large-scale technology projects providing key technical insights and guidance
  • Expert in system design, including cloud-based systems;
  • Agile continuous delivery, including continuous integration, automated testing;
  • Practitioner knowledge of Java or other JVM language, or .Net, and routinely uses automated testing tools and techniques.
 
Desirable:
  • Qualifications and experience in secure software development
  • Expert level skills in using infrastructure as code techniques.
  • Expert level skills in a code-based automation (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Working knowledge of containers and orchestration techniques.
  • Azure Pipelines
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