Software Development Team Lead
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Salary - Salary Plan, 63,000.00 GBP AnnualThe Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a great opportunity for a Software Development Team Lead to join us on a permanent full-time basis.
As a Software Development Team Leader for the Royal Society of Chemistry, you will shape the software architecture and the fine-grained detail of configuration and implementation throughout the software development lifecycle for performance, security and maintainability of the applications we build.
You will play a key role within our DevOps function, acting as a hands-on technical leader while managing a team of cross-functional engineers. This team includes back-end developers (C#/.NET, Node.js), front-end developers (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js), test automation engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (AWS).
Alongside leading and developing your team, you will remain actively involved in technical delivery-supporting design decisions, coding, guiding implementation, and ensuring best practices are followed. Your work will enable the Royal Society of Chemistry to build, scale and continuously improve our digital platforms and services for a global audience.
You will take ownership of the technical direction of the product roadmap, working closely with Solution Architects and other technical leaders to contribute to and evolve a shared architectural vision. You will guide agile teams through implementation, prioritise and assign backlog work, and ensure high-quality, reliable delivery of solutions, including responsibility for technical changes and releases.
In addition to your technical leadership, you will line manage and mentor a small group of developers, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture and supporting their professional growth.
At the RSC we embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means our teams come together when they need to collaborate. Although this role is contractually based at our Cambridge office, you will also be able to work from home within the UK, with the expectation that you will attend our offices and travel as needed for your role. If you need flexible working arrangements, please outline this in your application.
**We are looking for:
Deep understanding of programming principles and how they impact the maintainability of enterprise applications.
Extensive, expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience with .NET C# back-end development.
High level understanding of front-end development (HTML/CSS/JS/Vue.JS).
Experience with DevOps best practice, such as continuous delivery, continuous testing, infrastructure as code etc.
Understanding of cloud architecture principles and hands-on experience with AWS or similar platforms.
Proven experience delivering projects across the full software development life cycle (SDLC), from requirements gathering and design through to deployment and post-release support.
Experience working within Agile practices, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
People management experience including delivery quality, workloads and personal development.
If you are interested in this role, please apply as soon as you can as we will be conducting interviews while advertising. When applying, you will need to provide an up-to-date CV and as a cover letter (in no more than 500 words) telling us about your relevant knowledge, skills and competencies and why you are applying for this role.
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At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.
As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, we are flexible in the ways we give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team at [email protected] or on +44 (0) 1223 432229 and we will do our best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.
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