Lead Software Engineer, Faculty

About the Role

Join us as a Lead Software Engineer, with a focus on Machine Learning, to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from client-side deployments to advising on AI strategy, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable. This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation. If you're ready to manage high-risk projects and deliver practical, innovative outcomes, this is your chance to shape our future.

Setting the technical direction and overseeing delivery of high-risk, ill-defined software and infrastructure projects while balancing strategic trade-offs and helping teams prioritise in shifting environments, taking full ownership of successful outcomes for our most challenging projects.

Designing and developing reliable, production-grade ML systems and justifying critical architectural decisions to ensure robust delivery.

Developing clear, comprehensively scoped roadmaps for novel solutions to help customers achieve their strategic goals and accurately estimating effort on large workstreams to ensure successful and timely delivery.

Engaging with technical and non-technical customers at all stages of the customer lifecycle, giving reasoned and credible advice and opinions on a broad range engineering topics.

Collaborating proactively both within multidisciplinary delivery teams and across the engineering community at [Employer hidden] to overcome technical challenges.

Coaching team members on specific technologies and driving the development of shared organisational resources and libraries to streamline delivery and improve engineering methods across the company.

Leading the hiring and selection process while mentoring multiple individuals and managers to define the future shape of the engineering team.

Who you are

• You are a recognised technical expert who sets the standard for code quality and solution design, possessing the breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are proactive in recommending new technologies or ways of working to keep our offering ahead of the competition.
• You bring expert-level experience in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications.
• You are a proven leader, capable of managing other managers and setting team-wide development goals to elevate client delivery.
• You thrive in high-stakes environments, demonstrating the ability to turn innovative ideas into practical, measurable outcomes for global energy operators.
• You are a compelling communicator who can confidently defend technical rationales to senior stakeholders and guide both technical and non-technical teams.
• If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles.

Application process

• Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
• Introduction to the Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes)
• System Design Interview (90 minutes)
• Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)

Salary benchmarks

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Company Benefits

• Dental cover - 100% of dental fees covered, up to £500, including checkups and hygienist.
• Optical Cover - 100% of the cost of prescribed glasses and contact lenses up to £300 a year.
• Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside [Employer hidden]. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard and chair.
• Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family.
• Fantastic private health, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions.
• Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus.
• Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees).
• We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime.
• Paid Maternity, Paternity, Adoption or Shared Parental Leave - we offer a progressive, gender neutral and generous parental leave policy here at [Employer hidden]. All parents are given 15 weeks leave at full pay in addition to statutory time off after 12 months of service.