Technical Engineer

I’m currently partnered with a client who is looking to add a Technical Engineer to the team.

– £500 per day

– inside IR35

– 12 months initial with extension

– 2/3 days per week in London office (St Pauls)

– enjoy being part of a small team, passionate about technology and learning new skills.

Role overview

The Technical Solutions Developer role is a key position that reports to the Head of Technology Solutions. The role covers a wide variety of technologies and involves working on multiple projects at the same time, each with different scale, scope and focus. The work will consist of developing innovative solutions with well-chosen technologies, ensuring that they are documented, reliable, robust and easy to maintain. We also need to manage existing solutions, providing break-fix support when required. A significant part of the role will involve working with teams across the business, providing advisory services and improving the digital literacy of our organisation.

We are a small team. As such, the work may at various points include all aspects of traditional software development as well as technical analysis, training, presentations, documentation and research. The ideal person in this role will relish the prospect of being involved in a wide variety of different initiatives with a broad exposure to different business teams. They need to be comfortable and competent at engaging with colleagues at all levels of seniority, but also taking responsibility for a share of the administrative work within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with teams across our business to implement innovative solutions for their unmet needs, advising and upskilling the team members where possible.
• Design, build and maintain software infrastructure within appropriate monitoring, alerting, maintainability and performance parameters.
• Develop automation scripts to enhance product deployment and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Technology Solutions team to prioritise work in a structured, transparent way

Ideal technical skills

It is not essential that you all have these skills. We are more interested in your ability to pick these up with your background in Technology and your passion for learning than we are concerned that you are an expert in any one of these areas.

• Microsoft PowerApps (Microsoft Copilot Studio) – to create no-code solutions.
• Office 365 Apps – including SharePoint, PowerBI etc. which we use for augmenting the products we create for customers.
• Python – for creating small lightweight solutions such as API integrations.
• YAML – for GitHub pipelines.
• Markdown – for GitHub Documentation.
• Powershell – to enable us to perform Infrastructure automation.
• Terraform – for infrastructure automation.
• Azure – for cloud-based solutions; basic and broad experience with Azure and the various products would be useful.
• Product thinking – an ability to problem solve around customer needs/challenges.
• Solution design – an ability to take the customer need and design an architecture and implementation plan associated with it.

Desirable skills

• Experience with the Salesforce platform.
• SQL experience.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, its features and applicability to solve business problems.
• Experience with PlanView AgilePlace.
• SharePoint Online administration – permissions, document libraries, integration with Microsoft Teams.
• IT infrastructure knowledge including networking (switches, routers), security (firewalls, Cisco ISE), server room management including physical aspects.
• Basic understanding of data science.