Principal Technologist

Job Description

Salary: £85,000 - 135,000

Location: Remote first with occasional visits to client sites

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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

As a Principal Technologist you will be a valued person building and managing strategic relationships, leading accounts, finding new opportunities and advising as a senior technology leader.as part of our Cloud and Engineering practice. You'll enable public sector organisations to better use technology in order to improve society. You will be responsible for ensuring our team delivers against our client's highest level goals, outcomes and measures and; Identify simpler, more effective and more sustainable ways to deliver against these outcomes, influencing our client's choices.

Requirements

Your role at Made Tech

• Talk to people, empathise, and learn what those people want. (Build relationships, gain situational awareness.)
• You aren’t the expert at everything - It’s important to know your expertise's boundaries and trust others to bring their unique skills & experience to the table.
• Set high standards, nurture growth - You will coach and support Lead Software Engineers to steer their team's towards success. You will also be responsible for hiring and line managing them.
• Value technical agile practices
• While this is not a hands-on technical role, the importance of credibility in internet-era approaches to digital and technology in the public sector cannot be understated. You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge of modern software development practices, be able to shape technology strategy and roadmaps, and hold others to account for technical quality.

The following skills will be assessed during the application process

• Working directly with customers and users
• Working within a technology consultancy
• Working within an account or programme leadership team
• Working within bid teams to win contracts exceeding value of £1m
• Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams
• Strong understanding of agile ways of working
• Strong understanding of software engineering practice
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies
• Evidence of self-development – we value keen learners
• Drive to deliver outcomes for users
• Empathy and people skills
• Ideally previous exposure to the public sector
• Experience in hiring, forming and running software teams
• Maintain a deep working knowledge of technology and programming languages

Here at Made Tech, we’re committed to building a happy and diverse workforce. Throughout your interview process, you are welcome to speak to anyone from the following diverse groups:

• antiracist-activists
• disability
• lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
• neurodiversity
• parents-carers
• women-in-tech

This is completely optional but if you are interested in finding out more about life at Made Tech, please reach out to your respective agent or Talent Partner to set up a call.

Benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

✈️ Flexible Holiday

🕰️ Flexible Working Hours

👶 Flexible Parental Leave

👩‍💻 Remote Working

🤗 Paid counselling

🏖️ Paid anniversary break