Technical Lead

Salary: £84,000 per year

Technical Lead (Azure,.NET)
A leading provider of AI assistants to the public sector, we’re an innovative and growing tech company and we’re currently looking for a Technical Lead to add to our talented Technical Delivery team.
Role Objectives:
As a Technical Lead, you will focus on designing, developing and testing tactical and strategic AI enterprise solutions built on existing and newly emerging Microsoft cloud technologies. You will work within agile and waterfall project delivery models in a lead developer capacity. A strong technical background is required in.NET along with good analytical skills and the ability to lead engagements with customer stakeholders on multiple projects. We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in the world of AI solutions, particularly in virtual assistants. Some existing experience in this field would be fantastic, but it’s not a deal breaker.
What responsibilities will you have?
• Work with Architects, Developers and other Technical Specialists across multiple projects as a technical Lead developer.
• Work closely with Project Managers on the commercial and logistical planning activities around each project.
• Support pre-sales activities providing technical advice.
• Contribute to the analysis and design of solutions.
• Research and evaluate existing and emerging Microsoft services and tools where appropriate.
• Create low-level technical designs based on functional requirements.
• Create and manage project backlogs, source control and code reviews.
• Engineer innovative solutions around unpredicted constraints and challenges.
• Create prototypes, demonstrations and actively participate in customer stakeholder project cadences, training and co-development.
• Create, execute and document unit tests.
• Create and manage software releases.
• Provide basic support and debugging in development, UAT and production environments.
• Maintain and repair existing applications.
What will you need?
• As you’ll have a decent amount of client contact, it’s important that you’re confident with customers and adaptable to different business domains and problem spaces.
• A self-starter, pragmatic with a knack for taking on new technologies.
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to work in a busy environment with multiple projects and apply expertise in different Agile roles as appropriate (UX Designer, Scrum Master and QA Engineer).
• Competence with OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns.
• Enterprise-grade development experience with.NET Core,.NET Framework, REST/Web API, OAuth, Azure services (AAD, SQL, Storage, App Service, Functions, Logic Apps beneficial).
• Web development with ASP,.NET/ MVC/MVVM, client side (HTML5/CSS3/JS), React beneficial.
• Microsoft 365, Graph API, SharePoint, Teams
• GIT/TFS, CI/CD, Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of BDD, TDD and DDD approaches.
It would be great if you had knowledge of the following:
• Bot Framework V3 and V4, Cognitive Services
• Containers
• Microservice architecture
• Machine learning technologies
• Power Platform (Virtual Assistant, Automate, Apps)
What We Can Offer You:
’d be joining us at a great time. A successful start up, there’s around 25 of us at present – but we’re growing. Last year we grew by 100%, and the goal is to bring on more smart hires this year.
You’ll be joining a team of innovators, who are always looking to build on what we can deliver, and if you have good ideas then you can get them implemented. If you perform well, you’ll be recognised, through both progression and development.
We’re the UK’s only Microsoft AI Inner Circle partner, which naturally means that our standards of work are high. Our chatbots achieve human parity performance, meaning they are as effective as people when it comes to solving our client’s problems. AI truly transforms the way organisations solve problems, and it’s something that you could be a part of.
Sound interesting? Drop over an application, we’ll be in touch!
Note:
Our offices are based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, however we’d welcome conversations with people further afield interested in working in a remote capacity.
Salary up to £84,000