Software Team Lead

Join Us in Securing the Nation’s Future Are you ready to make a real impact? At the forefront of national security, Roke are a trusted partner delivering mission-critical solutions that protect the UK and its interests.

As a Software Team Lead, you live and breathe leading technical teams from the front, ensuring best practice and delivery whilst gaining exposure to an increasingly interesting customer base. Your knowledge will be deep; you will use it to define novel technical approaches to mission critical projects that keep the country safe.

This is your opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Big Data, and Digital Transformation—helping to shape the future of national security.

Your Mission This isn’t sat in middle management delivering performance reviews, appraisals or sitting through disciplinary meetings; it’s an opportunity to challenge yourself technically at the forefront of innovation whilst mentoring the next generation.

What You’ll Do • Providing direction within the scrum team • Liaise with the engineering lead • Be able to help the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories. • Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach • Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse • Translate logical designs into physical designs • Produce detailed designs • Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate • Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns • Integrating API / UI components with existing data stores and APIs • Maintain and develop existing architectural components including Data Ingest, Data Stores and REST APIs • Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions. • Assist the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact on • Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally • Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user

What You’ll Bring We’re looking for individuals with a blend of analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement, and a passion for national security. Ideal candidates will have knowledge in some of the following: • Programming languages such as Python, Java, Golang, JavaScript or C++ • Front end frameworks – at least one of React / VueJS / AngularJS • Web solutions such as Node.js, Nginx, Caddy or Uvicorn • Understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) • Experience with containerisation – Docker, Podman and K8s • Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud or Azure • Scripting languages – Bash or PowerShell • Most importantly, able to learn “just in time” to adopt cutting edge new technologies and paradigms