Role: Lead Engineer Job Type: Permanent Location: Edinburgh Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time
Ready to utilize your experience and expertise in Lead Engineer?
We have an exciting role for you Lead Engineer!
The Role
A Lead Engineer is a senior technical professional who combines hands‑on engineering work with technical leadership. They guide design decisions, mentor engineers, ensure quality delivery, and act as a bridge between engineering teams and stakeholders.
Your responsibilities
- Lead a Feature Team delivering features on our flagship products.
- Implement software engineering best practices to deliver exciting and innovative software within the API team.
- Develop solutions that support a consistent approach for delivering our technical strategy.
- Collaborate using Agile frameworks methodologies, to optimise team development process and give rapid feedback working iteratively.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience
- Detailed knowledge and experience of software engineering and processes, to be able to confidently design and implement solutions.
- In depth knowledge of developing and managing API solutions, including REST and microservices.
- Exposure to an API Management Platform would be a bonus (e.g., Apigee X, API Connect or similar).
- Knowledge of Cyber security and techniques to build secure and robust solutions.
- Cloud technologies and infrastructure are essential you will have exposure on at least one of the 3 main cloud providers Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills are also essential.
- Engineering leadership.
- Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to translate them into effective data architectures.
- Aligning data solutions with overall business goals.
Rewards & Benefits
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.
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Ready to utilize your experience and expertise in Lead Engineer?
We have an exciting role for you Lead Engineer!
The Role
A Lead Engineer is a senior technical professional who combines hands‑on engineering work with technical leadership. They guide design decisions, mentor engineers, ensure quality delivery, and act as a bridge between engineering teams and stakeholders.
Your responsibilities
- Lead a Feature Team delivering features on our flagship products.
- Implement software engineering best practices to deliver exciting and innovative software within the API team.
- Develop solutions that support a consistent approach for delivering our technical strategy.
- Collaborate using Agile frameworks methodologies, to optimise team development process and give rapid feedback working iteratively.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience
- Detailed knowledge and experience of software engineering and processes, to be able to confidently design and implement solutions.
- In depth knowledge of developing and managing API solutions, including REST and microservices.
- Exposure to an API Management Platform would be a bonus (e.g., Apigee X, API Connect or similar).
- Knowledge of Cyber security and techniques to build secure and robust solutions.
- Cloud technologies and infrastructure are essential you will have exposure on at least one of the 3 main cloud providers Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills are also essential.
- Engineering leadership.
- Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to translate them into effective data architectures.
- Aligning data solutions with overall business goals.
Rewards & Benefits
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.
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