Overview:
Provide technical leadership across development teams to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. The role combines hands-on development expertise with leadership responsibilities, translating business requirements into robust technical solutions while driving engineering excellence, delivery consistency, and collaboration across onshore and offshore teams.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery
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Lead the design and development of key features, components, and services across the application stack
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Provide hands-on guidance in building scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript
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Own critical technical decisions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term scalability goals
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Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges and design issues
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Solution Design & Requirement Translation
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Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs and implementation plans
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Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders to refine requirements and define solution approaches
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Produce and review technical design documentation, API specifications, and architectural artefacts
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Engineering Excellence & Governance
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Define and enforce coding standards, development best practices, and quality benchmarks
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Conduct code reviews to ensure maintainability, performance, and security compliance
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Ensure adherence to DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and secure coding
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Monitor and improve non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience
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Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination
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Guide and mentor offshore and distributed development teams, ensuring alignment to delivery standards
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Allocate tasks, oversee progress, and provide regular technical direction to team members
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Facilitate knowledge transfer, technical upskilling, and team capability development
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Ensure effective coordination between onshore and offshore teams, managing dependencies and delivery risks
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Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
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Work closely with architects, QA teams, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders
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Participate in and contribute to design reviews, sprint planning, and governance forums
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Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
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Delivery & Agile Execution
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Support Agile delivery processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives
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Ensure timely and predictable delivery of features aligned with sprint and programme objectives
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Identify risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Essential skills:
- Core Technologies
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Front-end: React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
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Back-end: Node.js (Express.js/NestJS)
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API Development: RESTful services, microservices architecture
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Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
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Architecture & Design
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Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (microservices, layered architecture, event-driven systems)
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Experience with scalable and cloud-native solution design
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Knowledge of system integration patterns and API design principles
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DevOps & Cloud
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
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Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
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Exposure to containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
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Engineering Practices
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Strong grounding in clean code principles and design patterns (SOLID, DRY)
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Experience with test automation, code quality tools, and static analysis
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Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements
Experience:
- Overall experience with strong hands-on development background
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Proven experience in technical leadership or senior development roles
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Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments
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Exposure to distributed delivery models (onshore/offshore teams)
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Non-Functional Expectations
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Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities
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Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
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Ability to balance technical depth with delivery and business priorities
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Proactive problem-solving and decision-making mindset
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High level of accountability and ownership
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Expected Outcomes & Success Measures
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Solution Quality & Delivery
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Delivery of high-quality, scalable, and production-ready solutions aligned with business requirements
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Strong alignment between functional requirements and technical implementation
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Reduction in defects and improved system stability
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Team Performance & Coordination
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Efficient coordination between onshore and offshore teams, resulting in predictable delivery outcomes
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Improved team productivity, technical capability, and adherence to standards
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Engineering Excellence
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Consistent enforcement of coding standards, architecture principles, and best practices
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Measurable improvements in code quality, test coverage, and deployment reliability
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Stakeholder Value
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Positive stakeholder feedback on solution quality, responsiveness, and collaboration
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Contribution to successful delivery of programme and release milestones
Benefits:
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
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We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
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Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
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Competitive company benefits
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Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:-
Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
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Communicating and promoting vacancies
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Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
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Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
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Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.
