Location: Crawley, West Sussex - three days per week / flexible
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 19 April 2024
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
We're looking for a highly skilled, .NET / Azure specialist to step into a Technical Lead role, helping building software across our enterprise - including our microservice architecture, inflight retail systems or supporting our Digital stack.
You will be responsible to deliver highly effective solutions for Virgin Atlantic. While this isn't strictly a 'hands on' role, you will be expected to have expert, demonstratable, knowledge of the .NET framework and Azure platform. The ideal candidate would have had extensive, senior-level, experience working as a .NET developer in previous roles, with a consistent track record of delivering solutions at scale.
We're a flat structured businesses - so you will be working with our development partners, enterprise architecture teams, as well as representing the team directly to senior management and other departments. Good personal communication and personable skills are essential to your success.
Day to day
Some of your key responsibilities as our Azure Technical Lead will be:
Technical Leadership
Coach and mentor developers around you - working with your peers to extend and upskill technical knowledge in the team.
Set direction and vision for our development partners, unblock impediments and clear risk before they materialise.
Work with your peers to design innovative, highly performant, technical solutions to meet our business requirements - utilising the best technology to meet requirements.
Document and present technical solutions to the wider Digital Team and seek agreement.
Lead by example, by taking the lead on major project work. Including crafting prototypes for new Digital capability and helping the development team adopt the solution and mature it for production.
Ensure PRs and code reviews are completed and ensure quality is driven into the code base.
Development
As a hands-on role, you will be contributing to the day-to-day activities, by conducting detailed code-reviews that meet the highest industry standards and practices.
Develop prototypes and POC software for new solutions.
Work with developers daily to resolve blockers, through pair programming, for example.
About you
Are you a passionate with technology with a love of partnering with a diverse breadth of people?
At Virgin we use a wide range of technology across our brands. We therefore do not expect you to have experience in our entire stack, but a broad set of technical skills and the passion and ability to learn new languages is important.
We are looking for the following desirable experience:
Shipping products using agile and lean methodologies such as Scrum and/or Continuous Delivery.
Working in a matrix style organisation where direction can come from multiple senior partners.
.NET and C#.
Distributed microservices architecture.
Leading multi-functional teams.
Developing Cloud-First (Azure) solutions
Knowledge of object-oriented programming and MVC paradigm.
If this sounds like you, and you wish to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Airlines and Aviation
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