Full Stack Development - Chapter Lead - Slough, Manchester, WGC

Slough, Welwyn Garden City or Manchester.

As a chapter lead, you'll focus more on 'How' we work rather than the 'What' we deliver'. You'll be responsible for leading, inspiring and motivating a team of colleagues in your chapter to be the best they can be. You will be responsible for ensuring your colleagues are assigned to the right squads to deliver great outcomes for our customers and drive satisfaction for our colleagues. As a servant leader you'll help colleagues in your chapter develop their mastery, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation. As a chapter lead you'll be responsible for identifying, selecting and onboarding talent and will be an influential member of Tesco Mobile's leadership community. Our chapter leads also benefit from being hands on and practicing their own mastery as a member of a squad where you'll also get to focus on 'What' we deliver, you'll be relied upon as the expert in your craft across the business as well as a leader for others. As the chapter lead, you'll lead a team of developers with a range of skills and experiences. You'll be focussing on driving cross skilling across your team to support their personal development and maximise flexibility to drive agility across the business. As chapter lead you'll be responsible for ensuring the experts are assigned to the right cross functional squads based on their skills, experience and own development needs. You will work alongside some of your colleagues in a squad where you will lead by example in fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team, ensuring that our software development practices remain at the forefront of industry standards.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

As a chapter Lead  

• An active squad member bringing your expertise to the squad to deliver great outcomes for our customers   
• Proactively identifying problems and challenges and actively resolving impediments to drive business value  
• Defining standards, methodologies, tooling and practices to optimise how the colleagues in your chapter deliver  
• Develop a mastery framework and use it to support your own and your colleagues personal development  
• Support colleagues in driving their competency through coaching, mentoring and training  
• Developing a community across your chapter to foster a culture of knowledge sharing, transparency and networking  
• Thought leader in your craft who guides and inspires the business to deliver innovative solutions  
• Support colleague lifecycle, recruitment, onboarding, performance evaluations, coaching and mentoring  
• Creating an inclusive culture embracing our 'We're unique together' behaviour  
• Responsible for allocating colleagues to squads they can add the most value and support their own development  
• You'll contribute to defining the chapter vision and strategy and be a key leader in executing it in a collaborative way  
• As a leader you'll be laser focussed on business strategy and lead colleagues in driving outcomes towards it  

As a squad member  

• Maintain high standards of code quality, through code reviews, automation and defining best practices  
• Collaborate with solution architects and other colleagues to deliver scalable and secure applications  
• Support the business in defining a strategy and transformation of key platforms and applications  
• Develop, implement and optimise coding standards, design patterns and strategies
• Work with Cyber Security colleagues to implement solutions to protect our business and our customers  
• Driving continuous improvement in CI/CD and maximising automation  
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges to optimise performance

• Extensive experience in developing robust backend solutions using Python and Django, ensuring high performance and scalability.  
• Proficiency in building and maintaining Java applications, with a strong understanding of Java frameworks and libraries.  
• Experience in developing efficient and scalable applications using Golang would be preferable  
• Expertise in frontend development using JavaScript and Angular, creating dynamic and responsive user interfaces.  
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker, ensuring efficient deployment and management of applications.  
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in automating workflows using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.  
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including services like Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, and other cloud infrastructure components.  
• Proficiency in using Redis for caching and RabbitMQ for message queuing, ensuring efficient data processing and communication.  
• Expertise in managing databases, optimizing SQL queries, and ensuring efficient data retrieval and storage.  
• Experience with NoSQL databases, particularly Amazon DynamoDB, for scalable and high-performance data management.  
• Proven experience in designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration between systems.   

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A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we’re the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We’re proud to have an inclusive culture that’s uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology – it’s a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do – allowing us to respond at pace to our customers’ needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.