Software Development Coach

What You’ll Do

• Coach multiple agile teams to improve engineering capability, delivery effectiveness and technical decision-making.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, security, resilience and knowledge-concentration risks.
• Promote pragmatic engineering standards, automation and effective developer tooling.
• Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities and platform adoption.
• Support responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development, including coding assistants such as Claude.
• Help teams use AI for coding, testing, code reviews, troubleshooting and documentation.
• Facilitate workshops, communities of practice and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Support technical modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to engineering governance, skills development and technical capability planning.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant commercial experience in software engineering and technical leadership.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability and secure software development.
• Practical experience with AWS, GitLab or comparable platforms, APIs, containers and modern programming languages.
• Experience coaching and mentoring teams with different levels of maturity.
• Understanding of large language models and AI-assisted engineering.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.

Desirable

• Platform engineering, Kubernetes or internal developer platforms.
• AI platforms, MLOps, prompt engineering or agentic workflows.
• AI governance and responsible AI adoption.
• Public-sector digital delivery or technology modernisation experience.