Technical Analyst Leader

NES Fircroft are currently recruiting for a Technical Analyst Leader for our client, who are a world-renowned leader in power and technology.

Technical Leader

Location: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Hybrid working: 2 days/week in office
Job type: Contract (long term)
Start date: October 2024

Overview
Our Aero Derivative Gas Turbines (AGT) business is recruiting a Technical Leader based in Warwick, United Kingdom. An established world leader in this highly innovative field, our business has been providing solutions for global power generation and oil and gas customers for over 50 years.  Onshore and offshore, our expertise and equipment provide an essential contribution to the world of energy, whether this be processing and transporting oil and gas through major pipeline networks or generating electricity with unsurpassed levels of efficiency and environmental cleanliness.

The position of the Digital Technical Leader will reside within the Digital Systems and Solutions Team (DSS) withing Digital & Data Solutions organization, which drives the digitalization and data initiatives within the AGT business.

The Technical Lead is a pivotal role within DSS team, responsible for guiding the technical direction and execution of projects, ensuring high-quality code/product, leading the work and activities of a team of developers within a Scrum Setup and Agile Development. The Technical Lead is both a hands-on developer (and might act as a lead developer on complex situations) and a strategic thinker, capable of understanding the big picture while also delving into the details of coding and system design.

This is a multifaceted role that oversees the technical aspects of solution design, software development and implementation. Understanding and analyzing requirements, developing cloud-based backend and web-frontend, using state of the art technologies.

These individual bridges the gap between development, operations, business, project managers and stake holders implementing strategies that improve efficiency, reliability, and speed in software delivery. The role demands a combination of leadership skills, deep technical understanding, and a passion for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) methodologies

As a Lead Developer you will part of a team designing and implementing cloud-based solutions and you will analyze requirements, architect, design and develop cloud-based backend and web-frontend, using state of the art technologies.

Key responsibilities
In this role, you will contribute to the team and business by:

• Technical Guidance: Define and maintain the technical vision and strategy for projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Technical Leadership: Lead, mentor, and support a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Architecture & Design: Ensure the adherence to the architectural design, develop technical specifications and designs, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. Conduct code reviews and set coding standards.
• Collaboration and Management: Collaborate with project managers, product owners, scrum master, Solutions Architect and other stakeholders to plan sprints, estimate workloads, and track progress.
• Problem-Solving: Address technical challenges, research and implement solutions, and make informed decisions to overcome obstacles.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the quality of the codebase through rigorous testing, code reviews, and the implementation of best practices for software development.
• Communication: Serve as the primary technical point of contact, effectively communicating complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Process: Ensure process is followed, documentation is generated in a progressive approach. And Ensure process keeps refining and improving
• Release Management: Oversee the release process, ensuring reliable and consistent delivery of software products. Develop and enforce release policies and standards.
• Automation: Implement and maintain automation tools for build, test, and deployment processes. Ensure that the automation infrastructure supports the needs of the development and operations teams.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Optimize the flow from code commit to production deployment, minimizing manual intervention.
• Documentation: Ensure comprehensive documentation of systems architecture, deployment processes, and release notes for clear communication and future reference.
• Collaboration and Training: Work closely with cross-functional teams to align DevOps strategies with business goals. Provide training and guidance to team members on DevOps best practices and tools.

You will contribute bringing your experience, fresh ideas and creative thinking to help the team create amazing digital solutions. You will focus on creating Business Value, amazing User Experience and exceptional Quality.
How You`ll Make an Impact

• Integrate cloud services in existing tool landscape
• Collaborate with peer organizations, quality assurance and end users to produce cutting-edge software solutions
• Troubleshoot code level as well as design problems quickly and efficiently.
• Estimates effort of the team’s backlog items together with product owners and relevant Board members.
• You will be responsible for on-time deliveries for the major project milestones.
• Become part of an internationally distributed team of developers and engineers.

Required qualifications, experience and skillset

• 3-5 yrs of experience leading a team of full stack developers.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Capable of working  with cross-functional and global team.

• Bachelor’s (or higher) Degree in Computer Science
• More than 8 years’ experience with the web development.
• Highly experienced in C#, .Net core and ASP .Net, Entity Framework, and Web API.
• Experience with Python, flask/Django.
• Able to develop API’s and RESTful services
• Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake for database management.
• You have experience with Angular front-end development.
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud (AWS) and Edge Computing, and DevOps practices
• Experience with containerization using Docker
• Excellent analytical skills, initiative, and problem-solving attitude along
• Experience of working in an agile team and are a team player
• Communicate clearly and effectively both in writing and in person
• Fluent and proficient communicating in English
• Attention to detail to help identify errors in code
• The ability to juggle multiple tasks and to be able to organize and prioritize to keep projects on track
• Self-Motivation and Independence to complete tasks
• Works effectively with teams; is a team player and meets deadlines

Your opportunities for personal growth

• Early influence your future organization and drive decisions for the future architecture
• Develop a network with different internal and external stakeholders
• Utilize strong partnerships with all leading public cloud providers
• Create with all necessary partners and stakeholders a new cloud environment
• Gain further knowledge for cost optimization of a large cloud environment.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.