Engineering Lead

Salary: £125,000 - 125,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or in a similar senior technical role.
• Strong background in backend software engineering and enterprise integration.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, middleware solutions, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as Sage, ERP, finance, or other business-critical systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Python and/or other modern backend programming languages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, application resiliency, and operational support.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical governance, and engineering quality assurance.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities.
• Ability to remain hands-on while leading multiple engineering teams.
• Desirable: Experience within Banking, Financial Services, or large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Desirable: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Desirable: Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability practices.
• Desirable: Experience supporting geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Desirable: Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, or developer productivity tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering leadership and technical oversight across multiple delivery teams.
• Define, implement, and enforce engineering standards, development processes, and architecture best practices.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges and critical production issues.
• Support the design and delivery of enterprise integrations involving Sage and other business-critical systems.
• Guide implementation of scalable integration patterns across APIs, middleware, event-driven platforms, and external systems.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Drive best practices across software engineering, DevOps, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design assessments.
• Provide technical mentoring and hands-on guidance to engineering teams.
• Contribute directly to troubleshooting, prototyping, solution development, and implementation activities where required.
• Support engineering modernisation initiatives and continuous improvement across tooling and delivery practices.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• ERP
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Sage
• microservices

More:

We are a leading consultancy supporting a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead for our Digital Tools & Partnerships workstream in a hybrid working arrangement, on an initial 6-month contract, paying up to £500 per day inside IR35. This is a hands-on leadership role where we value strong technical oversight, collaboration across teams and stakeholders, and delivery of scalable cloud-native solutions.

last updated 30 week of 2026