Product Engineer – Basingstoke, Hampshire
Sovereign’s ambitious Corporate Plan identifies the important role that data, digital, and technology play in our future success. Sovereign’s CIO function will enable us to leverage the investments we have already made and embrace new technology frontiers to create a modern, digitally connected business. We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Product Engineer to join our team. Based on our head office in Basingstoke, you’ll combine home and office work to ensure a positive work/life balance.
The role
You’ll be responsible for designing, building, and improving new products and existing products across the business. With a focus on low-code solutions, you’ll maximize Sovereign’s strategic investment in the Microsoft product stack.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, testing, and building new product solutions alongside making improvements to existing ones
- Collaborating with Product Managers and System Engineers to understand product development requirements and propose solutions that meet acceptance criteria
- Proactively researching and prototyping MS Azure Cloud Services, helping Product Managers understand available and future capabilities
- Configuring, testing, and deploying low code solutions, focused on the Microsoft Product Stack
- Writing, testing, and deploying product code, software updates and product changes
- Designing, building, configuring and deploying Product API’s
- Maintaining code repositories, CI/CD pipelines and Test Plans related to product development within MS Azure DevOps
- Developing a granular understanding of the Microsoft Power Platform products, using this knowledge to build and deploy business solutions
What you’ll need
You should have previous experience in a similar technical role, with strong knowledge and experience of the full product lifecycle. You’ll have strong commercial acumen with the ability to combine the requirement to champion a customer-centric approach to product solution design and the needs of Sovereign.
You’ll also need:
- Proven experience with software languages such as Java, C#/C++ and Python
- Awareness of building and deploying Microsoft Power Platforms solutions
- Experience of deploying and maintaining Cloud Services, preferably within Microsoft Azure
- Experience in building and maintaining web interfaces, API’s and webservices
- Proven experience of scaling Agile and establishing DevOps methodologies
- Expertise in identifying, managing, and monitoring the impacts of digital change
- Proven experience in relationship building, influencing and communication
- Ability to negotiate the balance of customer centricity and commercial viability of a product
- ITIL V4 or equivalent professional qualification is desirable
- Experience of relevant CIO tools (e.g. M365, Cherwell, DevOps) and methodologies (e.g. Agile, TOGAF, ITIL)
Your benefits
You’ll be given the opportunity to grow your skills within a role that will bring great satisfaction. You’ll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and find like-minded people in a diverse and inclusive working community.
We’ve got some great benefits on offer, including:
- £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice
- Flexible working – working from home
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
- Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
- Generous matched pension scheme up to 12%
- Life cover at 4x your salary
- Wellbeing discounts including Gym Memberships
