What will you be doing? 

• You must have experience in leading, mentoring and inspiring team members to reach their individual potential, whilst supporting department objectives.
• You will have experience with line managing teams of circa 6 Engineers (Junior, Mid, Senior level).
• You will have a background in improving engineering quality and efficiency within the team and department (e.g. encourage pairing, code review, etc.)
• You will have hands on design & development of digital platforms as part of a development squad using Scrum/Kanban. 

Who are we looking for?

• You will have deep experience of Java (JEE), Java Servlets and Spring Framework
• You will have a good background in driving the quality and performance of your micro-services.
• You will have a strong background in designing and developing RESTful APIs within a micro-services architecture.
• You will have great exposure in Scrum and developing through BDD/TDD, using associated tools for testing and continuous integration & deployment. 
• You will have an ability to challenge others in doing what’s right for the business.   

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family. We’re proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility for individuals returning to work after a career break. From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Vodafone.

*Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.