Software Engineering Team Lead

Software Engineering Lead-Hybrid
Do you enjoy leading a team that develops high-quality code? Are you a highly visible champion with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others? About the Business LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, risk.lexisnexis.com About our Team As a Software Engineering Lead you will joining the Data platform team who turn plain data assets into powerful insights that turbo-charge our solutions and solve critical problems for customers – enabling us to fight fraud, reduce risk and create a fairer and more inclusive society. The team use our big data platform (HPCC) to develop capabilities, which are delivered into solutions via rapid data queries and a secure, high-performance API layer.Our development teams are cross-functional and agile, with a high degree of autonomy. They align their work (and backlog) to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) set for the whole group; they set their own OKRs on a quarterly basis. All teams are supported by a Network of peers along with other disciplines such as Systems Architects and Site Reliability Engineers About the Role We are seeking a Software Engineering Lead for a newly formed development team - Data Platform. This is a hybrid role, based in our Cardiff office in the UK. The Data Platform Team turn plain data assets into powerful insights that turbo-charge our solutions and solve critical problems for customers – enabling us to fight fraud, reduce risk and create a fairer and more inclusive society. The team use our big data platform (HPCC) to develop capabilities, which are delivered into solutions via rapid data queries and a secure, high-performance API layer.
This role will support the team by enabling delivery of changes and directly managing around 3 to 6 talented Engineers. Responsibilities Be accountable for delivery of changes, enabling team members to set out what is required and then build it Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Project Manager to align the work of the team to solving problems for customers and business priorities, and then refine it into deliverable iterations Support the growth of your team members, allowing them to do their best work and achieve their career goals Continually strive towards engineering excellence – getting hand’s on with code where needed and maintaining excellent service for our customers Contribute to wider group initiatives, from championing information security to continuing to support diversity and inclusion within our teams Requirements Have hand’s-on technical experience building and delivering software as part of a development team (either as a Software Engineer or Quality Test Engineer) - Languages currently used by the team are C++, Golang and HPCC/ECL (we provide training on HPCC). Experience of these is a benefit, but not essential. Can guide refinement of technical work into deliverable pieces and can validate the team’s approach to solving problems (collaborating on achieving this is OK, and expected) Advocate and demonstrate commitment to a safe and inclusive environment, where everyone can be successful Can communicate quickly and clearly within the team and with stakeholders Can mentor others and help them reach their full potential Are comfortable making mistakes and learning from themThe role is hybrid based at the Cardiff office, you will be required to attend the office for workshops and other meetings.Women in Tech:LexisNexis Risk is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:Mentoring scheme for women in technologyWomen’s network forumWomen in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG)LexisNexis Risk Solutions proudly support the tech talent charter. Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here #LI-MH1#LI-Hybrid