Lead Developer

About TrakCel

We’re in the cell and gene therapy space. It’s the place to be – we’re helping bring truly life changing products to the market.

We’re an international technology company providing supply chain management software solutions to companies discovering, developing, and commercialising cell and gene therapies and personalised medicine.

Our purpose? To enable our clients to develop and deliver globally, affordable, ground-breaking treatments safely at scale. There’s a patient at the end of everything we do.

Role Outline​

Working as part of an agile delivery team, you will be involved in creating high quality software for the Clinical and Pharmaceutical sectors/industries in a fast paced, results-oriented environment.​

As the Lead Developer you will have overall responsibility for development quality and adherence to development and CI/CD processes of the agile delivery team by displaying technical leadership.​

You will be involved in and help drive forward architectural decisions.​

In addition to your development responsibilities, you will be expected to line manage a small team of developers.​

You will be expected to work with technologies such as Java, HTML5, JavaScript, Salesforce Mulesoft in the development of web-based applications and API services. ​

A passion for delivering complex technical solutions while following industry best practice is essential and experience building software for pharma in an agile SDLC would be beneficial.

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Main Responsibilities

• ​Promote the adoption of relevant architectural principles and software patterns that will ensure the codebase satisfies the major concerns of maintainability, extensibility, and readability.

•  Work closely with other Lead and Senior Developers and the Solution Architect when addressing significant architectural problems.

•  Champion improvements to software development process and tooling to promote quality and efficiency.

•  Act as an ambassador for the reduction of technical debt (including bugs) as a core priority for the platform and drive a quality first approach.

•  Promote adherence to unit testing and TDD principles.

• Promote best practice in the codebase around error handling, logging and monitoring to achieve high levels of stability, resiliency and traceability.

•  Document design decisions, adhere to existing architectural and process guidelines, develop software components, support QA during testing and have oversight during implementation into production.

• Working in an agile software delivery team in a hands-on capacity for the development of new software features and enhancements.

• Ensuring that own and team’s new code adheres to TrakCel’s development quality standards and TrakCel SDLC Standard Operating Procedures.

•  Follow and contribute to the company’s Standard Operating Procedures to ensure they accurately reflect the way development works.

• Being a role model and provide guidance and mentorship in the best use of technologies as well internal administration activities such as EQMS training and timesheets.

• Be an ambassador and avocat for Software Engineering to the wider TrakCel departments and teams.

• Support and where necessary, participate in automated and manual testing to ensure the team meets its quality commitments.

• Actively participate in meetings with customers and other stakeholders to demonstrate and review product functionality and configurations.

• Working through personal objectives which are set and agreed with the Head of Software Engineering.

• Undertaking line management of a small team of developers including; regular 1 to 1s, appraisals, performance management, including supporting training needs and HR system administration.

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Skills and Experience- Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification, or other technical expertise.

• With key development and CI/CD tools/applications Jenkins for CI/CD, IntelliJ for IDE, Gitlab for source control or equivalents.

• 5+ years’ commercial experience:
  • Making design, architecture, development decisions.
  • Working with architectural and design standards and technologies.
  • Working across the full life cycle of development projects.
  • Have worked in agile teams utilising methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban.
  • Understanding and experience of CI/CD and its importance during and for effective agile delivery.
  • Mentoring junior developers.
  • Developing using Java/J2EE or equivalent.
  • Developing web based UI applications and/or Web/RESTful API services.
  • Contributing to database designs and writing SQL.

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Skills and Experience-Desirable

• Previous line management experience.

• Experience with Salesforce.

• Mulesoft platforms or other integration platform.

• Experience using an ALM tool like codeBeamer or Jira.

• Setting up and/or maintaining tools and applications to support CI/CD such as Jenkins, Docker, Tomcat, Git, Artifactory, Ansible, AWS, Azure, Terraform.

• Experience of AWS services such as SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch.

• Good knowledge of the HTTP protocol.

• Experience of frameworks like Spring Boot and Hibernate.

• Facilitation, being actively involved in an Agile transition, any Agile training and certifications.

• Experience developing applications using an open source or commercial JavaScript framework such as Angular, ReactJS, Sencha ExtJS, etc.

• ​Working with customers to help define and document technical requirements as business. development/project teams in the preparation of client proposals.

Job Title:   DevOps Engineer

Company:   CACI Digital Solutions Group

Location:   Hybrid working, 2 days per week in office, and occasional travel to client sites.

Role Type:   Full-Time

Who we are:

At CACI we help clients transform their businesses using data and technology so they’re ready for todays and tomorrow’s challenges. Digital Solutions is a team of 110 and growing, we design, build, and operate complex cloud, digital and data platforms for some of the UK’s leading public and private sector organisations including BMW, Mitchells and Butlers, Police Digital Service, Ministry of Justice, Home Office, National Records of Scotland, National Air Traffic Services, and Network Rail.

We’re passionate about delivering great outcomes to our clients and are proud of our long-term engagements in both ongoing project delivery and service management.  

We’re innovators too, with a new venture, CACI Digital Forensics Laboratory, being launched later this year.  

What you’ll be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital Solutions team as one of our DevOps Engineers, responsible for design, build and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure and services for a range of public and private sector clients.

Reporting to our DevOps Lead, you will work with internal and 3rd party development teams to implement, maintain, and support solutions, primarily on AWS. This will include 3rd Line Support and on-call as part of a rota.

You will be applying common DevOps approaches and technologies such as Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, Containerisation and Orchestration to a wide range of solutions, public facing and private, all of which must be delivered securely in alignment with industry best practice.

Who you are:

Passionate about technology, professional, motivated, collaborative and continually seeking to learn and develop. Excited about the opportunity to work in a full lifecycle software business.

Must Have:

• AWS platform and core services
• Web Applications (public facing)
• Linux
• Containerisation and Orchestration
• Version Control and CI/CD
• Scripting, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code
• Networking (e.g. DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, WAFs)
• Relational and NoSQL Databases
• Messaging, queueing, and caching technologies
• Cloud Security and Protective Monitoring
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a team and communicate at all levels within the organisation
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience of problem solving in business-critical environments
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to pick up new technologies, methods & techniques
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from management, business and users
• Ability to accept and respond to questions and challenges from management, business and users
• Enthusiasm and commitment to delivering quality results

Note: Candidates must be eligible for BPSS, SC and NPPV3 vetting.

What we can offer you:

Training, personal development and progression

We understand that your career progression is important to you. At CACI people get promoted on merit when they are ready. This means that your career is completely in your own hands and there is never a ceiling for your progress.

Everyone’s career path is different. We welcome people exploring different areas and trying out new skillsets. Just because you start off down one path doesn’t mean you are committed to it indefinitely. At CACI you have the freedom to carve your own career path.

As well learning on the role, we will support you to gain certifications that enhance your career prospects and deliver value to CACI.

As your role progresses, we will review your training and development to ensure currency with our business roadmap.

Flexibility

The key to our success is our teamwork and collaboration. We take a hybrid approach – working remotely and coming into the office depending on the business demand and collaboration required as part of the delivery process.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension contributions up to 5% (matched by employee and employer)
• Life Insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Private Health Insurance from 2nd anniversary
• Sickness & Disability income protection from 3rd anniversary
• On site gym membership at our Kensington Office

Diversity and Inclusion

CACI is an equal opportunities employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to a working environment where no one will be treated less favourably on the grounds of their sex, race, disability, sexual orientation religion, belief or age.