Technology Delivery Lead - Mylo
12 month Fixed-Term Contract
Location: Edinburgh or Witham (hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)
Salary: A competitive salary from £52,720 - £79,080 depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 29th May 2026
As a Technology Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery, operation and continuous improvement of the Mylo mobile app. This includes leading cross‑functional teams, guiding technical direction, managing engineering flow of work and enabling high‑quality, high‑performance mobile software delivery.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Bringing together Mylo’s engineers, analysts, architects, testers and specialists to deliver high‑quality mobile app features and platform enhancements.
- Enabling collaboration, technical excellence and a shared focus on Mylo outcomes.
- Guiding teams in making decisions that balance customer value, technical sustainability and risk.
- Leading technical planning, estimation and delivery for all Mylo engineering initiatives.
- Contributing to hands‑on engineering where beneficial, covering areas such as code development, architecture shaping, mobile automation, or cloud engineering.
- Ensuring Mylo’s mobile app is performant, resilient, secure and continuously improved.
- Owning service quality, including performance tuning, resilience improvements and reduction of technical debt.
- Leading defect and issue management to maintain app stability and customer‑visible reliability.
- Overseeing Mylo’s engineering work intake, ensuring clarity of scope, acceptance criteria and alignment to Mylo priorities.
- Managing backlog prioritisation, capacity planning and delivery flow to maintain predictability and throughout.
- Monitoring engineering costs and optimising technical efficiency, including cloud spend and mobile infrastructure efficiency.
- Ensuring governance and performance tracking through meaningful metrics, controls, and outcome‑based engineering data.
- Enabling high‑performing teams by embedding modern engineering practices including Agile delivery, continuous integration, continuous deployment, DevSecOps, mobile observability, and SRE principles.
- Driving continuous improvement, ensuring processes, tools, and practices evolve to support rapid and safe mobile app delivery.
- Championing automation, including automated testing, automated deployments, monitoring, and operational automation for Mylo.
- Promoting a strong engineering culture focused on quality, learning and experimentation.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience building and delivering high‑quality digital or mobile software solutions within cross‑functional teams.
- A background in engineering, architecture, DevOps, technical analysis, or automated testing.
- Strong understanding of the engineering lifecycle including branching strategies, code reviews, release governance, and change control.
- Experience with build automation, deployment pipelines, cloud engineering, observability, and operational readiness for customer‑facing apps.
- Experience working with Agile and modern engineering practices.
- Have strong technical breadth enabling effective leadership across mobile engineering, backend services supporting Mylo, cloud infrastructure and integration patterns.
- Experience with modern engineering toolchains (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines).
- Ability to lead technical discussions and guide architectural decision‑making.
- Experience applying automation and modern delivery practices to enhance quality and speed.
- Have strong influencing and leadership skills with the ability to guide teams without relying on formal line management.
- Have strong communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and leadership.
What’s in it for you:
- Enhanced pension scheme (contribute 3% of salary, we match 9%, up to 20% total).
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
- 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro‑rated for part‑time).
- Private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits such as retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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