Lead Engineer
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | London: £64,300 - £70,730, National: £60,300 - £66,330. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £20,100. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 428555 |
Summary
The Lead Engineer will drive the technical delivery of their team, managing their workload and ensuring the right skills are available. You will be responsible for the work undertaken by your Developers and DevOps staff and will be expected to work with Seniors and Principals to ensure that services produced are best practice.
You should have a solid technical background and will be able to apply these skills if required to provide guidance to your team. You will also maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments such that you can support strategy formation.
Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate and endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis. Your remit may be across the engineering function but working closely with Architects and other professions.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
Backend: Java, Node.js, Python,
Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
DevOps/Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
AI: Github Copilot, OpenAI
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
Leading the day to day activities of engineers in your team, ensuring everyone is working effectively and efficiently; reporting any impediments.
Coaching your team as well as Supporting Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and encouraging formal professional qualifications.
Supporting capability build in your team and in the organisation.
Taking a hands-on role with engineering delivery when necessary, blending your leadership and technical tasks to achieve team objectives.
Ensuring appropriate methods are being used, as well as leading efforts to identify improved tools/technologies.
Due to business requirements this post is available on a full time/flexible working basis. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.
This role is not suitable for part-time working due to the nature of the role.
You should have a solid technical background and will be able to apply these skills if required to provide guidance to your team. You will also maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments such that you can support strategy formation.
Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate and endorsed and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis. Your remit may be across the engineering function but working closely with Architects and other professions.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
Backend: Java, Node.js, Python,
Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
DevOps/Platforms: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
AI: Github Copilot, OpenAI
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
Leading the day to day activities of engineers in your team, ensuring everyone is working effectively and efficiently; reporting any impediments.
Coaching your team as well as Supporting Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and encouraging formal professional qualifications.
Supporting capability build in your team and in the organisation.
Taking a hands-on role with engineering delivery when necessary, blending your leadership and technical tasks to achieve team objectives.
Ensuring appropriate methods are being used, as well as leading efforts to identify improved tools/technologies.
Due to business requirements this post is available on a full time/flexible working basis. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.
This role is not suitable for part-time working due to the nature of the role.