Lead Software Engineer

I am looking for a senior engineer to work for a company in the Maidenhead area. 3 days a week onsite, 2 days remote.

Please see task description below and if this could be of interest, please apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
• Lead medium and large sized projects
• Guide, train, and lead less experienced engineers 
• Collaborate with Architecture and DevOps teams to evaluate tools, process, and technologies.
• Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
• Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule
• Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
• Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product 
• Actively develop software solutions for company products
• Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements
• Use a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges
• Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions
• Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems
• Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans
• Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work
• Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software applications in a software product development environment
• Expert in all of the following: .NET and C#, SQL, JavaScript Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular), ASP.NET MVC.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and the use of Azure DevOps or Jira
• Experience serving as a technical team lead preferred
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience working on public cloud native applications with experience with the following: AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as a Service, Docker.
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority.
• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as