Engineering Lead

Company: Tata Consultancy Services
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Engineering Lead – Are you passionate about driving innovation and best practices in your field?

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design and delivery of scalable, high‑quality engineering solutions across backend, cloud, and integration layers
  • Act as a hands‑on technical leader while mentoring and guiding engineers within feature teams
  • Own technical decision‑making, architecture alignment, and engineering best practices
  • Ensure features are delivered end‑to‑end (design, build, test, deploy, operate)
  • Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, QA, and DevOps teams
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, CI/CD practices, and quality gates
  • Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies
  • Support production stability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement

Key Skills / Knowledge

  • Strong hands‑on experience in backend engineering (Java / Spring Boot or equivalent stack)
  • Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
  • Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
  • Strong experience with cloud‑native development (GCP / AWS / Azure)
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Strong experience with Git and modern version control workflows
  • Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to translate them into effective Test cases
  • Effective and excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work in a multi‑vendor team

TCS is consistently voted as 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.

If you would like to opt in for a disability interview, please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com.

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Posted: May 18th, 2026