Head of Engineering at Harvey Nash Plc, Glasgow, 6 Months, £725 per day

£725 per day
6 Months or more Government

Contract Description

Head of Engineering - Outside IR35 - Glasgow - Hybrid

Day Rate - up to £725

Duration - 6 months

Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client are looking to bring in a contract Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for:

  • Be an advocate for a collaborative, positive working environment where software engineers recognise and value the contributions of others and actively support success of the whole team
  • Lead in driving the technical strategy for systems, aligned with organisation objectives, balancing business need, resilient engineering, recruitment and budgets
  • Drive delivery and leading in software development, ensuring solutions adhere with architectural principles and software design standards
  • Coach, mentor and train teams and individuals to improve software development practices, focusing on engineering practices and remove/avoid single points of failure
  • Balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity in role and responsibility
  • Introduce new efficient processes and concepts in a continuously delivering DevOps environment
  • Deliver within Scottish Government Digital Service Standard
  • Deliver solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices
  • Incrementally replace enterprise Legacy systems, including corporate finance systems
  • Promote and ensure adherence to modern software development practices

Skills & Experience Required

  • Experience of working with and building Java and Spring Boot based microservices
  • Experience of working with public cloud technologies (for this role, we require at least 2 years AWS experience in the past 5 years)
  • Experience of TDD and Unit-Test tooling
  • Experience of leading engineering teams within Government projects to deliver/enhance public facing services
  • Able to identify efficiencies to be materialised by adapting ways of working and/or methods of delivery
  • Demonstrable experience in managing both own workload and competing priorities, and of engineers under your leadership
  • Familiar with JavaScript and best-practice approaches
  • Demonstrable experience of driving engineering teams to project completion whilst ensuring adherence to Government and industry standards, eg Digital Scotland Service Standards, current industry standard software development practices
  • Demonstrable experience in mentoring and conducting knowledge transfer to junior permanent in-house staff

Desirable Skills

  • Ability to review, identify gaps in and keep up to date engineering onboarding documentation to ensure staff can land and learn the landscape as efficiently as possible
  • Ability to create, or ensure the community can create, documentation for common practices, eg a runbook on how to create a new Java Service, which disciplines to engage, how to promote through the path to live
  • Experience of working with MariaDB, AWS AuroraDB or MySQL
  • Experience with Government security control requirements

Must be eligible for BPSS Clearance.