Digital Technical Lead (Business Change and Delivery)

– Digital Tech Lead (Business Change & Delivery)
– £510 per day
– 6 month contract
– Role based in Cambridge

As one of the most revered leaders in their industry, this technology led organisation is widely regarded as one of Britain`s global success stories. This is a fantastic opportunity to join them as we are looking for an experienced Digital Tech Lead within Business Change and Delivery.

Key responsibilities:

– Partnering with internal and external teams to estimate efforts for design, build and implementation in order to deliver the defined solution
– Provide technical leadership in the design and development working alongside architects, developers and testers
– Provide technical mentorship to junior developers
– Delivering and implementing a quality technical solution that will meet the solution design working with both internal and external teams
– Collaborating with the Service Delivery Manager and Transition Lead on planning and implementing a successful release into the live environment.
– Identifying and managing risks or issues which may impact the project delivery.
– Liaison with other technical groups such as Networks, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture and Information Management
– Managing project deliverables e.g.

– Completion of Technical Specifications
– Peer reviews of design, code and test scripts
– Unit testing
– Functional Unit Testing
– Deployment Preparation
– Ensure deliverables adhere to company standards and guidelines
– Proven experience of leading and managing multiple technical teams (onsite/offshore/nearshore)
– Significant experience of web application and content management system (CMS) with hands-on development experience

Key Skills:

– Sitecore CMS experience is a must
– Use of design and architectural patterns including MVC, SOA and multitier
– Demonstrable experience working in web and Microsoft technology stack including:.NET framework, ASP.NET and C#
– Web application hosting on IIS
– Experienced with web technologies and tools including javascript, CSS, HTML5, XSLT etc.
– RDBMS using SQL Server
– Working in cloud environment preferably Azure using SaaS and PaaS
– Use of automated deployment, continuous integration and build management tools e.g. Team City, GitHub, Octopus etc.
– Use of RESTful and SOAP web services to develop solutions
– Strong technical knowledge and ability to work with teams delivering solutions outside of the candidates core competency
– Experience of working in an agile development environment
– Support the project during various test phases including system, integration, performance and UAT
– Ability to manage delivery to quality, on time and to budget
– Able to identify and manage dependencies, risks and issues
– Experience in working with stakeholders across a range of levels
– Good communication skills
– Experience of working in a delivery focused organisation
– Ability to perform hands-on development or analysis (source code/log) if essential
– Ability to analyse performance test results and tune web applications
– User experience (UX) design using front-end framework e.g. bootstrap, foundation
– Development or design experience using Sitecore CMS workflows, community, localisation and customer portal features
– Deploying and configuring search products e.g. Coveo
– Use of project management and tracking tools like JIRA
– Application integration using web services and ETL tools. Any experience working with SAP PO would be added benefit
– Use of Azure AD and integration using SAML or WS* standard
– Dev Ops and cloud deployment automation and configuration e.g. Puppet, Chef, Vagrant etc.
– Containerisation using Docker