Lead Technical Recruiter (Digital Data and Technology DDaT) - for Engineering, Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) and UCD Professions at UK Home Office
Salary: £62,109 (National) or £66,229 (Croydon) plus up to £18,291 skills allowance, pending assessment
Location: Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield (hybrid with 60% office attendance)
Close Date: 11:55pm Wednesday 21st January 2026
The Lead Engineer will drive the technical delivery of their team, managing their workload and ensuring the right skills are available. You will be responsible for the work undertaken by your Developers and DevOps staff, and will be expected to work with Seniors and Principals to ensure that services produced are best practice. You should have a solid technical background and will be able to apply these skills if required to provide guidance to your team. You will also maintain a broad perspective, monitoring technology developments such that you can support strategy formation.
Along with the other Senior, Lead and Principal Engineers in your area you will be responsible for ensuring that all technical approaches being used are appropriate and endorsed, and will take part in planning with senior stakeholders to make sure that product delivery and maintenance is on a firm basis. Your remit may be across the engineering function but working closely with Architects and other professions.
Essential Skills
* Guide and support team members, assigning tasks based on objectives and strengths. Monitor quality and performance, provide feedback, and mentor colleagues to build capability. (PEMT)
* Working with stakeholders at all levels, including facilitating discussions around complex topics and managing expectations (DLMG)
* Creating, executing, and delivering detailed roadmaps that include appropriate quality management and business capacity to ensure successful outcomes. (QUMG)
* Lead the design and architecture of complex software solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with standards, patterns, and best practices. (SWDN)
* Mentoring colleagues in developing skills and capabilities in line with strategy, team, and personal goals. (PDSV)
* Design, develop, test, document, and refine moderately complex programs or scripts, applying agreed standards and tools to deliver robust, well‑engineered solutions. (PROG)
* A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
* In‑year reward scheme for one‑off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
* The ability to potentially adopt flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, plus the opportunity in future to take a career break.
* 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
* Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
* 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
* Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
* Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
* Support for guardians and kinship carers.
* Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
* Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.
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