Technical Lead, IT​/Tech, Systems Engineer

This position sits in our UK and Ireland region within the Health Business Team.

Our team is responsible for managing complex business and technical needs for large clients mainly within Ireland. Our team is cross functional and collaborates with clients in large integrated work streams containing multiple stakeholders, agencies and client teams.

We have a matrix management structure, and as such the role also sits within the Engineering craft.

We are looking for a seriously technical person who will be able to work with our tech leaders to drive forward solutions for our clients. The role holder will be expected to have a broad business understanding and collaborate with other crafts, along with the technical leaders (front end, backend, Dev Ops, Martech) in the team.

The role is client facing, and as such the role holder should be able to communicate complex ideas to various technical and non technical stakeholders. It is expected that the role holder will help to form and execute on the technical vision across the team and clients.

Across the team we work with a variety of technologies; including Wagtail, NextJS, React, React Native, Python, Django, Adobe Campaign, Salesforce, VueJS, FHIR, Azure, GCP, Laravel, and other php frameworks and many more. The wider teams also work with Drupal, Drupal Acquia, Shopify, Optimizly, Sitecore.

• Own and lead on the technical vision for the team and client;
• Lead on technical conversations as part of feature or functionality discovery;
• Define and develop solutions in conjunction with other technical teams;
• Define technical requirements with technical teams, solutions architects, BAs and other crafts;
• Create solution design documents, high level designs, low level designs and architecture diagrams and drawings;
• Contribute to technical programme and roadmap definition and management;
• Act, where necessary, as the technical product owner within the team;
• Support incident response where necessary;
• Critically question and be open to new approaches, pivots and iterative delivery of solutions.

• A collaborative, strong technical leader who is able to bring people and teams along;
• A person who will jump in to support the team where necessary;
• Someone with experience working in ambiguity and defining as they go;
• A background in development, Dev Ops or technical architecture;
• A demonstrable ability to work with multiple teams and stakeholders and convince people of an approach;
• Ability to work with people of various technical competence and bring them along;
• Client management experience;
• Knowledge of CMS, Mobile App and Mar Tech architecture;
• Understanding of database design and data modeling approaches;
• Experience in some of the technologies we currently use;
• Advocate and champion user experience and delivering the best solution for users
• Located and directly available to start working in Ireland or in the UK;
• Able to commute to our Dublin office once in a while;
• Full working proficiency in the English language.

Please note that benefits may vary by location. Feel free to reach out to your recruiter for more details

• Hybrid working policy
• Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the Open Up platform, and a multisport programme;
• DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021;
• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications;
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

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