Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead focuses on design, leadership, customers) on delivery progress, risks, and dependencies.

What the role involves

• Design, leadership, customers) on delivery progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Own team’s Agile maturity, establish team delivery standards, and optimise team practices for maximum effectiveness and predictability.
• Balance workload, staffing, and hiring needs to maintain sustainable delivery while planning for growth.
• Managing up and across the organisation to secure resources, remove impediments, and represent the team strategically.
• Drive comprehensive quality culture including TDD/BDD practices, testing standards, automated quality gates, and team code review excellence.

Skills and requirements

• Frontend Strategy : Strategic understanding of modern UI frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js, Blazor).
• Data Architecture : Strategic knowledge of SQL, NoSQL and data architecture decisions.
• Infrastructure as Code : Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, ARM Templates or AWS CloudFormation/CDK.
• Cloud Strategy : Strategic SAAS using Azure (Functions, Queue, Blob Storage, VMs, etc) or AWS (Lambda, SQS/SNS, EC2, etc.) ecosystems.

Confirmed role details

• Design, and Platform teams, supported by positive stakeholder feedback.

Candidate fit

• The Engineering Lead is a hybrid leadership role that combines technical leadership, agile delivery ownership, and people management.

Additional role context

• Line manage engineers including coaching, performance reviews, career planning, and regular 1:1s.
• Develop team members through structured career development, skill building, and succession planning.
• Handle performance management including improvement plans, conflict resolution, and team dynamics.