Lead Consulting Engineer

Bringing Creativity and Joy to the World of (software) Engineering

Lead Consulting Engineer 

UK based, remote first with some client travel 

About us:

We are a team of highly experienced software engineers who help complex organisations create high-performing software teams, allowing them to accelerate the delivery of business outcomes whilst driving behavioural change through coaching, training and pair programming.

We work  to identify the gaps in an organisation’s engineering capability and then transfer our skills, knowledge and experience by  providing repeatable patterns and behaviours to create sustainable change and build a culture of continuous improvement.  

We embed our engineers into our client teams to understand their problems, accelerate their delivery and show them different ways of working.  Alongside offering technical solutions, we teach them how to use XP practices like Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development and Everything as Code to improve communication and collaboration, reducing single points of failure, and ultimately increasing the quality and speed of delivery. 

Armakuni is a test-first and agile environment, with a keen focus on the quality of the software that we develop, and how we can support our Engineers to continue their learning and career journey. 

About the role:

As a Lead Consulting Engineer, you will be our primary person responsible for the successful delivery of client engagements, both technically and commercially. You will lead and influence multiple teams (Armakuni, client and partners) as well as senior leaders, to ensure the adoption of cloud native approaches, and best software engineering practices. 

A trusted advisor and technical expert, your relationships with senior leaders will enable you to consult on the strategic approach that will enable a successful engagement. Your leading and coaching skills will enable all teams involved to work together to become an elite performing engineering function. 

This is a multi-faceted role that will see you leading, doing and learning, as well as ensuring that the environment is in place for all folks to excel in the engagement. You’ll be as comfortable pair programming as you will be in gaining an understanding of the pain points in a client's organisation, and working closely with them to resolve these. 

And whilst you’ll have overall ownership for technical output, you won’t be on your own - all AKers (folks from Armakuni) take great pride and ownership in our engagements, and we work collaboratively across our teams to ensure a successful outcome. 

What you’ll bring to the role:

As well as your leadership and influencing skills, the most important things we look for are attitude and learning agility; you are bright, flexible, intellectually curious, self-aware, passionate about learning and sharing, and have an appetite for continuous improvement.   

You will have an aptitude for programming and developing software, we are language and technology agnostic so a background in software engineering across multiple languages will stand you in good stead for this role. As a champion of modern software engineering methods, you’ll have experience working in agile environments, ideally XP, and will role model the benefits of approaches such as TDD and Pair Programming.  

We expect you to fully understand and immerse yourself in the client’s aims, and challenges, and have a high level of empathy and ownership of the solution.  You will offer professional insight ensuring client satisfaction whilst representing the commercial interests of Armakuni.

Some of skills and approaches you might bring to the role; 

• Experience working within and leading Software Engineering, and/or Data teams in an enterprise environment
• A natural ability to influence and manage client stakeholders
• A deep knowledge of Cloud Native principles and practices, likely with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong programming skills across multiple languages such as; Java, Python, Node, Javascript or React. Though we’re open to other languages too.
• An good understanding of software engineering architecture
• A passion and advocacy for practices such as Pair Programming, Ensemble (Mob) Programming, Test-Driven Development and continuous integration
• Practised in developing maintainable software, and agile ways of working
• Facilitation, Coaching or Mentoring experience
• Experience leading a team and/or driving change
• Great communications skills
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to recognise and action sales or upselling opportunities

Armakuni is a remote first organisation, so for the most part, it will be up to you where in the UK you are based. And we are a customer focussed organisation too, so there will also be a need to travel to client offices from time to time too. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a priority for us –  Diversity of thought and representation helps us understand our clients’ concerns and create better solutions for them.  We are an inclusive employer and aim to create an environment that supports and includes everyone.  We assess all candidates based on skills so please let us know if we can offer any support.  We will look to offer adjustments to our recruitment and work practices to help those who apply for our jobs and work within our organisation to have a better experience. This is not just a legal obligation to provide reasonable adjustments but an opportunity to offer the best experience possible for all.

Life at Armakuni

We are proud of our open, transparent and inclusive environment and continuous learning culture.  We host company wide events every Friday to share knowledge and build our internal community.

We believe that a strong work-life balance helps our team to work to the best of their ability and be able to switch off and enjoy the fruits of their labour in their time off. We are happy to offer full or part time hours, and we will work with you to enable flexibility

What you will get in return:

In addition to working with a highly motivated team of dedicated co-workers who are passionate about technology, you’ll also receive some great benefits;

• A highly competitive salary, commensurate with the skills that you bring to the role
• We are a remote first organisation, so we also give you an allowance to set your home office up - and a Mac to go with it
• We really care about our people, so we offer a host of health and wellbeing related benefits, including; Wellbeing allowance, BUPA private health cover, critical illness cover, access to SPILL therapy, GP24 and various others
• We also want to make sure that you get the right balance, so we offer 25 days holiday plus 3 days Christmas shutdown. You can buy more or sell these days too.
• For those thinking about a family, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay, as well as a return to work bonus
• Our employer pension contribution is 5% of annual salary
• We have some great company and team events that will help you to engage with your colleagues, and to grow with a visionary company