Staff Software Engineer

Management Level

FStaff Software Engineer (Compendia)

Reporting To

Engineering Manager/Technical Engineering Manager

Business Unit

Product & Engineering

Nature of Experience

An experienced engineer with extensive domain knowledge, impacting the company, teams, products and processes.

Description

The staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Lead Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Responsibilities - Refer content in detailed Job Description attached.

SFIA Responsibility Level: 4 - Enable

Technical Responsibilities -

SFIA Skill: Level 5
Programming/software development PROG

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Education

Relevant Experience

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems
• Experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation.
• Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products.

Professional Skills and Qualities

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness.
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering.
• Analytical - business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle management
• Problem solving

Personal Skills and Qualities

• Emotional intelligence and empathy
• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism
• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation
• Active listening and observation
• Continuous learning
• Language and communication
• Creative thinking
• Resilience, perseverance and patience
• Ownership and dependability
• Critical thinking
• Time management
• Decision-making

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Advanced Level

• Full Stack development
• REST Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments

• HTML5, CSS3
• JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI SASS, Angular, TypeScript
• WebForms, MVC
• Asp.Net, .Net Core, C#
• WCF, Web Api, Windows Services
• Dapper, Entity Framework
• xUnit, Fluent Assertions
• LINQ & Lamda
• PowerShell
• RabbitMQ, Topshelf, Auto Mapper
• OAuth, Identity Server,
• XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath
• SQL, T-SQL
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code

Domain Skills and Qualities, at Advanced Level

• Experience in Pensions and Financial Services

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.