Job Description

Squad Lead

Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,000 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next few years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

The Squad Lead plays a lead role in the build and delivery of remarkable products. You will lead and inspire a squad to succeed, bringing your passion for managing and developing people through career coaching and mentoring, and work with senior client stakeholders to accelerate their digital capabilities.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Software engineering experience across the whole stack including a specialism in .net based solutions. Comfortable being hands-on with development teams, understanding what great code looks like and able to see the bigger picture, taking into account architecture and applying a DevOps mindset.
• Ideally you’ll also possess in-depth expertise across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, adopting cloud-native approaches like serverless and event-driven architectures, and managing diverse Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) workloads. Your approach is strongly guided by the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF).
• You are comfortable leading engagements from the front, whether embedded directly in a customer team or guiding AND engineering teams. You bring a bias for technical delivery and are ready to roll up your sleeves when it matters, helping teams succeed.
• Experience leading Engineering Teams – handling some of the tricky stuff as well as developing the talent within your team.
• A passion for supporting the growth and professional development of others through hands-on line management of a squad of ANDis from mixed disciplines.
• Advanced knowledge on agile delivery and how to apply it to transformation journeys at an organisational level with the ability to bring others on board.
• An understanding of working in a professional services set up and the dynamics of supplier-client relationships.
• An understanding of the need to be flexible – to tailor your approach depending on who you’re working with, to see the opportunity when things aren’t perfect, to enable teams to deliver remarkable work by wearing these different hats!

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Flexible bank holidays
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• Private medical insurance
• 6% employer pension contribution, when you contribute 2%
• PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits - click here

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.