Technical Lead - 6226
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/24/2025
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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Description
Job Title: Technical Lead x 3 positions
Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
The Tech Lead at Cambridge University Press and Assessment plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, scalable, and resilient applications that support the global spectrum of education needs. By providing technical leadership across the full technology stack, the Tech Lead ensures systems are designed for maintainability, extensibility, and long-term success, empowering teams to unlock potential, and deliver transformative solutions for learners, teachers, and researchers.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About The Role
We're seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to lead by setting standards for the migration of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications to scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS, with a strong focus on observability and web-app technologies. You'll lead an agile, cross-functional engineering team by setting standards and providing thought leadership to deliver resilient, high-performance systems that empower our global platforms, serving millions of users worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to establish the foundation for future innovation, including the adoption of event-driven architecture (EDA) and modern practices to support successful cloud migration
As a hands-on Tech Lead, you'll bring deep expertise in AWS architecture, cloud migration strategies, and observability frameworks, leading the transformation of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications into modern, scalable, cloud-native solutions. Your technical mastery spans microservices, serverless, and containerisation (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Docker), with proficiency in building high-performance PWAs using frameworks like React or Angular integrated with cloud-native backends. You will spearhead the implementation of robust observability solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, ensuring resilient, reliable systems that empower our global platforms.
Security and compliance are at the heart of your approach, as you champion industry standards like OWASP and GDPR, deploying secure authentication (OAuth2, JWT) and encryption (TLS, AES) across all touchpoints. Your leadership is backed by extensive experience developing full-stack applications, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and driving automation through CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins. You thrive in agile, cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers and aligning technical solutions with evolving business needs.
Ideally, you are also keen to explore event-driven architecture (EDA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), with an interest in advanced patterns like CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Saga using AWS EventBridge, SNS, or SQS. Your background may include experience in various business sectors, equipping you to address industry-specific challenges and shape strategies for effective and future-ready cloud migration.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 7th August. Interviews will take place after a call to discuss your interest, experience and suitability for the role.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand the eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
The Tech Lead at Cambridge University Press and Assessment plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, scalable, and resilient applications that support the global spectrum of education needs. By providing technical leadership across the full technology stack, the Tech Lead ensures systems are designed for maintainability, extensibility, and long-term success, empowering teams to unlock potential, and deliver transformative solutions for learners, teachers, and researchers.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About The Role
We're seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to lead by setting standards for the migration of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications to scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS, with a strong focus on observability and web-app technologies. You'll lead an agile, cross-functional engineering team by setting standards and providing thought leadership to deliver resilient, high-performance systems that empower our global platforms, serving millions of users worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to establish the foundation for future innovation, including the adoption of event-driven architecture (EDA) and modern practices to support successful cloud migration
- Shape Cloud-Native Architecture: Lead the migration of legacy 3-tier applications to AWS, designing scalable, resilient architectures using microservices, serverless, and containerised deployments (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, Docker).
- Drive Observability: Implement robust observability frameworks using AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to ensure system performance, reliability, and proactive issue resolution.
- Prepare for Event-Driven Architecture: Design systems with the flexibility to adopt EDA patterns (e.g., CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga) in the future, leveraging AWS EventBridge, SNS, or SQS for scalable, decoupled solutions.
- Build Web-App Solutions: Develop responsive, high-performance Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) using modern frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) integrated with cloud-native backends.
- Optimise Cloud Deployments: Leverage AWS services (e.g., RDS, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, EventBridge) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to ensure cost-effective, scalable solutions.
- Ensure Security and Compliance: Champion secure practices aligned with OWASP and GDPR, implementing authentication (OAuth2, JWT) and encryption (TLS, AES).
- Lead Automation and CI/CD: Drive automation through CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to accelerate delivery and minimise technical debt.
- Mentor and Collaborate: Guide engineers, foster a culture of learning, and collaborate with product teams, architects, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals.
As a hands-on Tech Lead, you'll bring deep expertise in AWS architecture, cloud migration strategies, and observability frameworks, leading the transformation of legacy 3-tier enterprise applications into modern, scalable, cloud-native solutions. Your technical mastery spans microservices, serverless, and containerisation (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Docker), with proficiency in building high-performance PWAs using frameworks like React or Angular integrated with cloud-native backends. You will spearhead the implementation of robust observability solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack, ensuring resilient, reliable systems that empower our global platforms.
Security and compliance are at the heart of your approach, as you champion industry standards like OWASP and GDPR, deploying secure authentication (OAuth2, JWT) and encryption (TLS, AES) across all touchpoints. Your leadership is backed by extensive experience developing full-stack applications, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and driving automation through CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins. You thrive in agile, cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers and aligning technical solutions with evolving business needs.
Ideally, you are also keen to explore event-driven architecture (EDA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), with an interest in advanced patterns like CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Saga using AWS EventBridge, SNS, or SQS. Your background may include experience in various business sectors, equipping you to address industry-specific challenges and shape strategies for effective and future-ready cloud migration.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 7th August. Interviews will take place after a call to discuss your interest, experience and suitability for the role.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand the eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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