Lead Application Developer
PA Consulting
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Full time
Posted
Company Description
About us
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.
We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics. We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage
your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.
PA. Bringing ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
Looking to join a team that is making cutting edge techology, that really makes a differnece in the planet we live?
Our Digital team are looking for an exceptional Lead Software Engineer
As the Lead Software Engineer on the team, you'll be leading the development of the web components of our Patient Catalyst application – a AI-enabled operational decision support platform of Healthcare staff.
You'll help steer the direction of projects with your ability to make pragmatic design decisions that deliver value to our clients whilst still adhering to best practices. You know what good looks like from an architectural best practice sense and understand the importance of a robust path to production and why adopting a DevOps culture in your teams is important.
Whilst not necessarily the top contributor on Stack Overflow, you're a solid coder in your chosen stack and are not afraid to pick up new programming languages or technologies. You're comfortable in client situations and at articulating technical problems to non-technical people.
This role reports directly into the Tech lead !
In the role, you will have the opportunity to:
Lead by example, applying best practice Agile and DevOps principles.
Have a pragmatic, product focussed mentality to ensure what we build consistently delivers value to our clients.
Get your hands dirty across a variety of technologies and understand common patterns across the full stack of an application.
Take pride in building and nurturing others around you
Qualifications
About You:
Substantial experience working with C# .NET.
Experience developing cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience defining testing strategies and applying test automation, ideally drawing on TDD or BDD.
Experience implementing CI/CD practices such as git, branching, automated tests and automated deployment pipelines.
Personal qualities
You'll have a passion for delivering fantastic technology enabled products that deliver value to our clients
You'll be a great communicator and a collaborative team player - passionate about building great relationships with your colleagues and clients alike.
You'll be armed with initiative and will strive to solve problems yourself - Google'ing is half of the job!
We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant
candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.
We like to recruit lots of great people into this role, across all ranks. You will see this
advertised year-round and will be individually reviewed by our recruiting team who will reach out to you dependant on your suitability at this time or in the future!
Apply today by completing our online application.
Additional Information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.
Find out more about Life at PA here.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
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