Azure Technical Lead

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join the Frontier team on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a fully homebased role but there will be a requirement to attend sites when needed.
You are an experienced Lead developer bridging the gap between the development teams and other stakeholders, driving technical excellence while enabling seamless communication and execution in our software development projects.
At Frontier, the Technology Team strive to deliver brilliant experiences for customers and colleagues. We want to hear from passionate, enthusiastic people from any background. We work with a variety of technologies from front-end native and web applications through to the backend systems that hold our organisation together and the hardware they run on. We are a data-driven organisation. We are transforming our technology landscape and the way we work, and this is a fantastic opportunity to join a team at the start of a change journey. Join us to make a real and valuable difference as you build your career at Frontier.
The Benefits
Competitive salary
Work from home anywhere within the UK
25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days
Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers
About You
Comfortable with frontend and backend technologies along with their infrastructure developing and implementing ETL processes using Microsoft Azure
Solid experience implementing solutions in the Azure Data ecosystem including Azure Data Lake, Data Bricks, Data Factory, Service Bus, and Logic Apps
Experience with Informatica Customer 360
You have developed CI/CD pipelines for automated build and deployment
Enjoy working hands-on in the code and are focused on delivery goals
Enjoy collaborating with designers and product owners to innovate and devise great technical solutions to meet user needs
Familiar with Scrum/Agile and experienced in delivering longer term goals in an incremental manner
Experience in supporting members of the team and have a passion for bringing the best out of people
You can help teams to focus on project goals to reach the best delivery outcome
Your Role
As a Technical Lead (Azure) your role will involve:
Finding effective solutions to technical problems, overall application architecture design and driving the full-stack framework forwards
Ensuring system components designed, developed, and optimised to agreed technical standards and best practices against complex requirements
Owning and developing code quality measures and maintainability standards, and ensuring the implementation within the development teams
Guiding and standardising the estimation process between development teams
Leadingand participating in, design sessions and code / peer reviews
Directing and performing trials, testing and quality checks to ensure applications deliver agreed business outcomes and agreed technical and security standards
Working with development teams to catalogue and reduce technical debt
Building and maintaining a knowledge base of agreed design and development artefacts in Frontier KB systems
Working with Architects and other Tech Leads to design scalable solutions and solve problems
Implementing, measuring and maintaining coding standards for the team
Mentoring, motivating , and coaching developers to improve their knowledge and output
Working with the teams to evaluate and evolve the best technical setup to deliver agreed business outcomes in the context of the overall Frontier Architecture Roadmap
Optimising our software delivery by defining and measuring KPIs to identify performance improvements
About Us
Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.
With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.
Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.
Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise or ICE. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.

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