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.