Technical Lead

About us:

We are the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) of CACI UK, a specialist technical consultancy providing bespoke solutions to solve complex operational problems. Due to some exciting growth within our Mood business, we are interested in speaking with an experienced Technical Lead to join our Mood Team.

Role Location:

You can work from any of our 6 offices in the UK (including Bristol, Cheltenham & London) or from home, you decide. The role will however require you make regular visits to the team based from York.

The Opportunity:

Working as part of the Mood business at CACI Information Intelligence Group, we are looking for a Technical Lead to play a key role in developing a new application that will provide our customers with the capabilities to build their own digital twins. In this Technical Leadership role, you will be responsible for defining and driving the overall technical strategy, leading 2 Agile teams. You will hold responsibility for the team’s outputs and provide technical leadership, whilst being hands on with complex technical tasks as required. This will include ensuring the team are comfortable with their tasks and holding a broader oversight for what everyone within the team is responsible for.    

You will oversee the full software project lifecycle including project concept formalisation; technical requirements analysis and specification; software architecture design; software implementation and delivery; software training and support and software lifecycle and maintenance. You will be using your broad experience across a range of technical tools, languages, and methodologies to implement a high-quality product and create innovative and effecting solutions.  

Typical responsibilities include:

• Overseeing and contributing to the implementation of full-stack software solution including design, development, and testing. 
• Ensuring best practice coding practices and Agile methodologies (including SCRUM & Kanban) are implemented and followed. 
• Architecture Oversight: Oversee the design of microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Using a wide range of technologies, specialising in the use of open-source libraries and components. 
• Using tools such as GitLab to build continuous integration pipelines, which help monitor and ensure software quality and security. 
• Ensure robust authentication and authorisation, likely using Keycloak.
• Implement secure coding practices and enforce data protection measures.
• Work with the DevOps Lead to optimise GitLab CI/CD workflows for efficient deployments
• Ensure the adoption of Terraform, Kubernetes, and OpenShift for scalable deployments.
• Oversee the implementation of logging (ELK stack), monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and alerting mechanisms to maintain system health.
• Ensuring the production and maintenance of documentation for application development and revisions 
• Managing relationships with the leadership team, ensuring progress is communicated and issues are escalated early.  
• Ensuring your knowledge and professional development keeps pace with an everchanging technology landscape 
• Providing leadership and support to delivery team members as required. This will include upskilling in React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and DevOps tools

The Fit:

For our current requirement, we are looking for Technical Lead with experience of:

• Leading Agile development teams
• Full Stack development experience with extensive working with Javascript (ideally node.js and React)
• Taking accountability for key project deliverables.  
• Translating business and user requirements from user stories into technical solutions.
• Deploying Cloud Technologies and understanding their commercial applications
• Developing and training junior team members

Due to the industries we work in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.

Why work for us?

IIG has the culture and feel of a small business, paired with the benefits of our position in a much larger organisation. The Technical Lead role is an excellent opportunity, and CACI reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:

• Flexi-time: 37.5 hour weeks to structure how you want.
• Hybrid working: Work from one of our offices or from home - you choose
• L&D: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials.
• Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events.
• Future You: Matched pension and health care package.

We offer a great L&D package including 5 days external training, a career coach and guilds to share innovation and learning. We also offer self-directed career progression, that fosters opportunities for success for us and our business.

We take great pride in taking care of our talent, providing a highly dynamic, inclusive and team-led environment where everyone can thrive.

Equal Opportunities:

CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to pre vent discrimination.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will;

• Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on 020 7602 6000 to discuss individual requirements further).
• Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.

Our people are unique and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.