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Job Description Are you passionate about shaping engineering strategy, driving technical excellence and developing high-performing teams? We're looking for a Technical Lead to play a critical role in defining the future direction of our technology landscape. You'll act as a trusted technical authority, working across multiple teams to deliver secure, scalable and resilient solutions while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, helping engineers grow while influencing strategic technology decisions across the organisation. What you'll be doing: • Defining and leading engineering strategy to deliver scalable, secure and maintainable technology solutions across the organisation • Driving a coherent quality engineering approach through testing standards, automation and governance practices • Promoting secure-by-design principles and ensuring security risks are identified and addressed effectively • Establishing and evolving observability capabilities through logging, metrics, tracing and alerting frameworks • Championing metrics-led engineering to improve delivery performance, reliability and customer outcomes • Providing technical leadership on complex engineering challenges and guiding high-impact decision-making • Influencing technology investments, architecture decisions and engineering best practices across multiple teams • Mentoring, developing and empowering engineers while building a culture of continuous learning and excellence Who we're looking for: • Significant experience leading technical strategy and influencing engineering direction across complex technology environments • Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, serverless technologies and microservices • Deep understanding of software testing, quality engineering, CI/CD practices and Agile delivery methodologies • Experience implementing secure software development practices and embedding security within engineering teams • Strong knowledge of observability frameworks, reliability engineering and metrics-driven decision-making • Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts and influence senior stakeholders effectively • Experience coaching, mentoring and developing engineers to achieve their full potential • Strong technical background in technologies such as Java, AWS, Spring Framework, Node.js, Docker and modern software engineering practices Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes • Generous pension contribution • Life assurance • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only) • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday • Competitive family leave • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only) • There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online • We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience