Requirements
Must have:
- Proven technical leadership experience with the gravitas to earn trust and respect from senior engineers and architects - Ability to empower delivery teams while maintaining appropriate technical oversight - Strong experience facilitating complex technical discussions, workshops, and design sessions - Deep understanding of software architecture principles and modern software delivery methodologies - Excellent stakeholder management skills, particularly within technical, architectural, security, and compliance contexts - Strong, demonstrable experience delivering and leading teams working with Oracle APEX solutions - Experience defining and enforcing APEX development standards, governance, and best practices in enterprise environments - Ability to guide teams on APEX architecture, including application design, security models, performance, and maintainability - Experience integrating APEX applications with external systems using REST APIs and related integration patterns - Strong experience with one or more of the following: Java (JEE, Spring Boot), JavaScript, React, Angular), Python - Strong experience with relational databases, including Oracle (including performance tuning and schema design for APEX), MySQL, MariaDB - Experience with complementary data technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch - Strong understanding of testing strategies across mixed low-code and custom-code environments - Experience with automated testing and quality tooling, including Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Pact - Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter and k6 - Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-based platforms and applications - Strong hands-on knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift - Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible, Helm, Terraform - Solid Linux administration experience - Have an existing enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) security clearance
Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership to the APEX delivery team across the full software development lifecycle - Collaborate with senior delivery, service, and product stakeholders to ensure a cohesive and high-quality technical service - Lead and facilitate technical workshops and design sessions with subject matter experts to resolve complex challenges and agree clear technical direction - Apply architectural and delivery expertise to capture, articulate, and evolve the teams strategic technical needs - Engage with client design, architecture, security, and compliance stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and embedded - Maintain oversight of technical decisions, constructively challenging assumptions and priorities while empowering teams to deliver
Company:
North Tower Consulting (NTC) is a specialist technology and customised software solutions consultancy, providing professional expertise in Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Lifecycle Management Services, and more. We are seeking an experienced Principal Technical Lead to provide technical leadership and oversight across complex software delivery initiatives. Our roles are only available if you hold a UK Security Clearance and are a sole UK National due to the secure nature of the project. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including additional leave, company events, a pension scheme, and paid volunteer time, with a salary ranging from £60,000 to £95,000 per year. The role will primarily be in-person.