Technical Lead

About this opportunity To drive the ambitious business growth, we are leveraging innovative technology solutions as a “business driver” to deliver the capabilities needed to support our customers and colleagues. You’ll work within our Core Engineering within the wider Consumer Engineering Team. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that support our external customers and internal colleagues. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking, innovative team and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join! This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Senior Tech Lead working across a small number of cross-disciplinary feature teams providing engineering leadership that spans the full stack. You'll be passionate about designing and delivering scalable applications. This role will be pivotal in continuously building cloud native distributed applications. We are seeking people who enjoy the opportunity to shape the direction and success of a team and leading on exciting technology initiatives. What you’ll do • Lead and define application architecture/ design to build modular, well tested web applications on cloud that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale. Take pride in “You build it, You Run it”. • Ensure software is built with scalability, security, performance and reliability consistent with MACH engineering principles while supported by architecture frameworks and patterns defined by wider Engineering community with focus on delivering business value. • Understand and apply industry best practices, foster knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. What you’ll need • Technical Leadership: Demonstrable experience leading multiple technical squads or a portfolio of technical disciplines working across senior stakeholders in product, delivery, enterprise/solution architecture and engineering. • Development Expertise: Deep knowledge of modern software development toolsets including Cloud hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, API’s, DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery in GCP (preferred), Azure or AWS. • Language and frameworks: Proven experience of Typescript / JavaScript libraries tooling such as Node.Js, Fastify, NextJS (App Router), React with headless CMS like Storyblok, Contentful or Contentstack • MACH Engineering: Strong experience of micro-front end, micro-service Api design, event driven headless architecture along with RESTful APIs and web services. • Build and Deploy: Demonstrated success in building and managing full- stack applications across the full spectrum of environments—including local development, integration/QA, staging, production. Ability to tailor deployments, configurations, and monitoring strategies to suit the unique requirements of each environment. • DevOps: Familiar with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker etc.). Experience with Kubernetes-based environments, particularly Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or similar orchestration platforms is highly desirable. • People Leader: Leadership experience including line management, team leadership, mentoring and task management.