engineer London, England
Dentsu International
Full Time
London, England
32977 - 31520 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Job Title:
Geospatial Engineering ManagerJob Description:
The difference you will make
The purpose of this role is to technically lead and line manager the Applications Development team and deliver new and enhanced bespoke application solutions to meet business requirements. Industry experience working with Location Intelligence / GIS platforms is essential
- As a Head of Engineering, you will manage and mentor software teams delivering to specific product areas, with a particular focus on the Technical/Development Leads.
- You will be a strong advocate for the team and share practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams.
- You will have a deep understanding of, and be able to coach and mentor the team in, modern agile software development practices, particularly in the areas of Scrum, CI/CD, clean code, microservice architectures and full team accountability for test practices.
- We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, cloud architectures, large-scale system design, 3rd party integrations, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, and UI design.
- We need our engineers to be versatile, to display leadership qualities and to be enthusiastic in taking on new problems.
What you will be doing
- Ensuring team composition is adequate, hiring to fill gaps and line management of your team of Development Leads (onshore and offshore), who will look to you as a mentor to develop their skills for regular 1:1s and as a coach to guide them through the software development life cycle.
- Ensure team composition costs are tracked and meet budgetary constraints.
- Collaborate with other Leads in Engineering and other Technology functions (e.g. Architecture, DevOps, Security) across different geographies, time zones and cultures to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable code which can be built, tested and deployed into Production using automation and CI/CD pipelines.
- Enable an empowered team model and support your team’s workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders.
- Work with the Area PO and Area Delivery Manager in preparing the team for upcoming new work; understanding and estimating epics; attending regular weekly Discovery sessions to help identify potential solutions.
- Work with Architecture to ensure solution design is reviewed effectively, and is conformant with NFRs, Security and Data Privacy guidelines.
- Responsible for ensuring all non-functional requirements have been captured, implemented and tested in parallel to functional delivery.
- Implement software engineering best practices with your peers within Engineering, such as pair programming, clean code, CI /CD, and pyramid testing within a Scrum agile delivery frame.
- Responsible for code quality, ensuring test practices and code reviews are conducted to a high standard.
- Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud platforms.
- Lead the efforts to troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in our development, test and production environments, including performance optimization and continuous tuning.
- Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest development methods, tools, and technologies.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers.
- Industry experience working with Location Intelligence / GIS platforms is essential.
- Highly experienced in agile test-driven software development.
- Passionate about writing well-crafted clean code and comfortable working in an agile environment.
- Ability to write high-quality code across modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Knowledge and experience in delivering solutions using a microservice architecture with RESTful protocols.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging programming languages, frameworks, and platforms.
- Knowledge and experience in implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Knowledge and experience of hosting in cloud platforms preferably in Azure.
- Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
- Good communication and collaboration skills are essential.
Essential
- Strong experience in building modern web applications within a Microsoft Azure environment.
- Strong experience in building solutions in Microsoft .NET stack, Angular, Typescript, NoSQL, and cloud-native systems.
- Strong experience of test and CI/CD frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, xUnit, Azure DevOps.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of elastic stack.
- Knowledge of Microsoft BI stack.
- Working knowledge of API Management gateways (Azure API Management).
What else do you need to know
We operate on a hybrid working basis and offer flexible working conditions.
Open to all locations in the UK London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or Stafford.
About dentsu international
Part of Dentsu Group, Dentsu International is a network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Dentsu delivers people-focused solutions and services to drive better business and societal outcomes.
This is delivered through five global leadership brands - Carat, Dentsu Creative, Dentsu X, iProspect and Merkle, each with deep specialisms.
Dentsu International’s radically collaborative team of diverse creators unifies people, clients and capabilities through horizontal creativity to help clients create culture, change society, and invent the future.
Powered by 100% renewable energy, Dentsu International operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 46,000 dedicated specialists, and partners with 95 of the top 100 global advertisers.
www.dentsu.com
About Dentsu Group (dentsu)
Led by Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a pure holding company established on January 1, 2020, the Dentsu Group encompasses two operational networks: dentsu japan network, which oversees Dentsu’s agency operations in Japan, and dentsu international, its international business headquarters in London, which oversees Dentsu’s agency operations outside of Japan.
With a strong presence in approximately 145 countries and regions across five continents and with 65,000 dedicated professionals, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric integrated communications, media and digital services through its five leadership brands—Carat, dentsu X, iProspect, Dentsu Creative, and Merkle—as well as through Dentsu Japan Network companies, including Dentsu Inc., the world’s largest single brand agency with a history of innovation. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.
How we’ll reward you
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.
Inclusion and Diversity
We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
Location:
LondonBrand:
Global TechnologyTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentAbout Dentsu International
CEO: Wendy Clark
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 5001 to 10000 Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.dentsu.com
Dentsu International
www.dentsu.com
London, United Kingdom
Wendy Clark
Unknown / Non-Applicable
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
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