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Technical Lead (Full Stack)

  • At PA, we take an innovative approach to technology consulting. That’s why we only hire the most innovative thinkers. With a global network of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients, we offer our consultants unrivalled opportunities for growth and give them the freedom they need to excel. Whether they’re interested in solving complex challenges, executing organisational change or inspiring unconstrained ideation, we offer them a place to carve out a lasting career. Employee-owned, award winning and highly ambitious, at PA we are a different kind of consultancy.  

    Job Description

     As part of our Digital team, you’ll work alongside colleagues from across PA – delivering transformative digital solutions to today’s most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome. We’re an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner.

    You’ll be leading a team or effort. We’ll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development pod, or else you could be working across multiple pods, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.

    • You’ll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions
    • Using your experience of the development process, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a pod, or multiple pods, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place
    • You’ll be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project
    • You’ll have a strong work ethic and can manage complexity across multiple projects and stakeholders, playing an active role in account management
    • Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role and you’ll be comfortable creating opportunities for everyone to get involved; inspiring and encouraging others around you to actively shape and contribute
    • Your involvement in shaping bids (working with a bid team) will assist to create approaches or proposals, and perhaps you may also add valuable contributions during presentations to clients in a formal selection process • You’re constantly learning, keeping on top of market trends, and challenge your own thinking to continuously improve

    Qualifications

    • Proven experience in JavaScript and NodeJS

    • Strong experience in user interface design and development using React.js or Angular

    • Experience developing solutions in the cloud, using either AWS, GCP or Azure

    • Experience developing code using CI/CD tools

    • Experience in microservices architecture, including containers and serverless implementation. E.g. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions

    • Experience working in agile development teams where you’re applying development practices such as:

    • Agile sprints
    • TDD and/or BDD approaches
    •  Experience working in a team to develop design, elaborate user stories and deliver estimates during story pointing
    •  An understanding of scalability, high availability and disaster recovery requirements

    Additional Information

    Benefits:

    • Private medical insurance
    • Interest free season ticket loan
    • 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
    • Company pension scheme
    • Annual performance-based bonus
    • Life and Income protection insurance
    • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
    • Voluntary benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)

    We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

    As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

    Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

    An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

    PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

    We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

    We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

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