London / Bristol (2 days onsite)
Our client is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable enterprise technology solutions within a fast-paced cloud and digital engineering environment. You’ll work closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders. The role requires a strong balance of technical depth, leadership capability, and stakeholder engagement, with responsibility for driving engineering best practices, delivery quality, and team performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own technical architecture, engineering standards, and solution design principles
- Lead architecture and design reviews ensuring scalability, resilience, and security
- Provide hands‑on guidance for complex technical challenges and engineering decisions
- Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, code quality, testing, and DevOps
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of engineering initiatives within agreed timelines
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into deliverables
- Manage backlog prioritisation, sprint execution, and delivery planning
- Ensure quality through robust code reviews, testing practices, and automation
- Lead, mentor, and develop high‑performing engineering teams
- Drive coaching, performance management, and capability growth
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and accountability
- Support hiring, onboarding, and resource planning activities
- Act as the bridge between business and engineering teams
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and delivery progress clearly to stakeholders
- Drive process improvement, automation, and engineering efficiency initiatives
- Identify opportunities for modernisation, optimisation, and cost reduction
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in modern software engineering using technologies such as: Java, .NET, APIs and cloud-native development
- Strong understanding of architecture, integration, and distributed system design
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong ownership of engineering delivery and technical outcomes
- Ability to balance hands‑on technical contribution with leadership responsibilities
- Experience working within Agile and cross‑functional delivery environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills
- Ability to thrive in fast‑paced enterprise delivery environments
If this is relevant to your experience, please apply with your CV and we'll be in touch. Thanks!
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Our client is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable enterprise technology solutions within a fast-paced cloud and digital engineering environment. You’ll work closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders. The role requires a strong balance of technical depth, leadership capability, and stakeholder engagement, with responsibility for driving engineering best practices, delivery quality, and team performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own technical architecture, engineering standards, and solution design principles
- Lead architecture and design reviews ensuring scalability, resilience, and security
- Provide hands‑on guidance for complex technical challenges and engineering decisions
- Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, code quality, testing, and DevOps
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of engineering initiatives within agreed timelines
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into deliverables
- Manage backlog prioritisation, sprint execution, and delivery planning
- Ensure quality through robust code reviews, testing practices, and automation
- Lead, mentor, and develop high‑performing engineering teams
- Drive coaching, performance management, and capability growth
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and accountability
- Support hiring, onboarding, and resource planning activities
- Act as the bridge between business and engineering teams
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and delivery progress clearly to stakeholders
- Drive process improvement, automation, and engineering efficiency initiatives
- Identify opportunities for modernisation, optimisation, and cost reduction
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in modern software engineering using technologies such as: Java, .NET, APIs and cloud-native development
- Strong understanding of architecture, integration, and distributed system design
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong ownership of engineering delivery and technical outcomes
- Ability to balance hands‑on technical contribution with leadership responsibilities
- Experience working within Agile and cross‑functional delivery environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills
- Ability to thrive in fast‑paced enterprise delivery environments
If this is relevant to your experience, please apply with your CV and we’ll be in touch. Thanks!
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