Engineering Team Leader
2 days ago
Leeds
• Lead the engineering team’s technical direction, people development, and end-to-end delivery, • Own systems and services across design, development, deployment, operation, modernisation, and continuous improvement, • Lead design decisions aligned with StarCompliance architecture and engineering standards, • Drive modernisation, simplification, and technical-debt reduction, • Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, maintainability, testing, observability, and production readiness, • Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices, including automated validation and guardrails, • Translate product priorities into achievable engineering outcomes, • Drive automation across testing, CI/CD, deployment, and operational processes, • Use engineering, production, and incident data to improve quality and delivery effectiveness, • Build solutions using modern Azure, cloud-native, and reusable platform capabilities, • Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, and Product, • Resolve cross-team dependencies and communicate delivery, technical risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders, • Contribute to engineering-wide standards, forums, and improvement initiatives, • Report to the Director of Engineering, • Significant software engineering experience, including technical and people leadership, • Strong experience with C# and modern .NET / ASP.NET Core, • Strong understanding of APIs, software architecture, and modern integration patterns, • Strong experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems, • Experience with infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning, • Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging, • Experience building and operating enterprise SaaS or cloud-hosted applications, • Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript, • Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly SQL Server, • Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering practices, • Understanding of observability, resilience, performance, and secure software development, • Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic development approaches, • Experience supporting or leading AI-first or agentic engineering transformation, • Proven ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, allocate resources, and influence across teams, • Strong technical judgement, communication, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills, • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience, • Experience within regulated SaaS or financial-services technology Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, driving modernization and automation, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Proficient in C#, .NET, Azure, and modern engineering practices, with a strong focus on scalability, security, and performance. • C# Programming, • ASP.NET Core Development, • Microsoft Azure, • Microservices Architecture, • AI-Assisted Engineering, • Software Engineering, • APIs, • Infrastructure as Code, • Event-Driven Architecture, • SQL Server, • React, • TypeScript, • Automated Testing, • CI/CD, • Distributed Systems, • Technical Leadership, • Communication, • Coaching, • Stakeholder Management, • Resource Allocation, • Degree in Computer Science, • Degree in Software Engineering, • SaaS, • Financial Services Technology, • Regulated Environment, • Engineering Standards, • Continuous Improvement #J-18808-Ljbffr