[Rails] Ruby Lead Developer, London, 9m

*Overview*

Our client is searching for top class' Ruby Developer - to lead a small
team in *Central London*, but also get their hands dirty in code where
required.

Day rates will be dependent upon experience but will range at around *£400
- £500 per day*. This role is an *immediate start*. expected to be for* 9
months*

This role can be divided into two parts:

1). Initial Due Diligence: performing an audit of the existing landscape
and proposing, where required, a roadmap for changes(s) to be made. Then
undertaking activity to drive these changes through to completion.

2). Ongoing activity to keep services running in a stable manner and
providing business as usual continuity, with the appropriate DR in place
where necessary

As an experienced practitioner within the space the individual will have a
roving brief; but the following key areas of accountability will likely be
in scope:

    - Auditing the existing landscape and proposing changes where required
    - Driving thru' such changes to completion - working with the immediate
    team and other development teams across the org
    - Supporting current project work - already underway - across all areas
    of the project life cycle
    - Documenting and capturing details on in flight projects and the BAU
    set up, and their outcomes ie facilitating strong knowledge transfer from
    project teams into the wider organisation.
    - Providing best in class technical steer and counsel - based on
    experience elsewhere.

The individual occupying this role will be a confident and articulate
technical professional - knowledgeable in this particular space, and be
able to guide the rest of the team. They need to be practical and
pragmatic, hands on and happy to get stuck in'.

*Skills/Experience Required*

    - Strong Development Experience with Ruby on Rails, ideally via a number
    of implementations (5+ years ideally - with experience of Ruby 4.0 [release
    June 2013] or Ruby 4.1 [release April 2014]).
    - Experience - with demonstrable examples - of using webservices (REST),
    RSpec and other associated services/tooling - such as Puppet, Sinatra, Git
    (source control system), Heroku etc..
    - Also experience using AWS would be a necessity as would experience
    with Solr
    - Front End Development experience (JQuery, JavaScript, CSS etc ) would
    be beneficial
    - Project Management experience (5+ years) - and experience in leading
    small teams would be a real bonus

please email your details to [email protected]