Job Description
Agency developers like the variety of projects because they learn more quickly and get to play with new tech, but once it’s handed to the client, their involvement ends, which can leave them feeling used and empty.
Product developers take pride in seeing the fruit of their labour, but working on the same tech stack or maintaining what you’ve built with minor improvements can get a little stale after a while.
Why not have both?
Use your technical expertise to lead projects, combining ownership with variety at this 1000-person consultancy, working with government policymakers and half of the FTSE100 companies.
You’d join as a Lead .NET Developer on a crack team of four, the go-to technical experts who work across multiple industries like healthcare, energy, pensions, insurance and football.
They’ll call you when one of the 8-9 product teams wants to build a new product or feature, collaborate on a new proof of concept, or address problems such as scalability, performance, architecture, or technical debt.
You’d embed yourself in that team as a Lead .NET Developer, review the system, identify the key issues, and weigh the pros, cons, technical choices and trade-offs.
You’ll use your pragmatism to propose a well-thought-out Azure-based solution, architecture, ...