Technical Engineering Lead

Job Description

Salary: HG16T £75,000 negotiable depending on experience

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Location:

Cardiff, UK

Hybrid working: 1 day in office

The International Baccalaureate provides world‑class educational services to over 6,000 schools across 160 countries. A career with the IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader in education services where we empower our employees to thrive and make a difference.

The Technical Engineering Lead is responsible for the technical implementation, evolution, and quality of the organisation’s CMS and content‑centric platforms. The role combines hands‑on full‑stack development with technical leadership, guiding a team of developers and ensuring robust, scalable, and sustainable CMS solutions aligned with architectural standards.

• Act as engineering lead for the CMS platform, providing hands‑on development and technical leadership
• Drive technical execution, quality, and consistency across CMS development
• Design, develop, and maintain CMS backend services and user‑facing applications
• Define and evolve coding standards, development practices, and technical guidelines
• Review code and mentor developers to support continuous skill development
• Collaborate with software and solution architects to align implementation with architecture
• Design content structures, schemas, and models supporting long‑term reuse and evolution
• Own CMS integrations, content processing pipelines, and platform stability
• Identify and mitigate technical risks across the CMS platform
• Contribute to roadmap planning and continuous improvement initiatives

• Extensive experience with headless CMS platforms and content‑centric systems
• Proven full‑stack development experience across backend and frontend technologies
• Experience acting as a technical or engineering lead within a development team
• Strong expertise in content structures, schemas, and markup‑based modelling
• Understanding of editorial workflows and content life cycles
• Ability to translate business requirements into end‑to‑end technical solutions
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience with AI agent development

• Flexible benefits allowance equivalent to 1.5% of Annual Salary to spend on benefits or as addition to salary
• 10% employer pension contribution with a 3% employee contribution
• Enhanced family friendly benefits
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• Life assurance 4x annual salary
• Flexible working hours (core hours 10am–12pm and 2pm–3pm)
• Paid volunteering leave
• Excellent continuous professional development

We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified applicants. As a global employer, we adhere to all relevant employment legislation in the countries in which we operate, and we’re happy to provide any reasonable support or adjustments as needed to ensure applicants can fully participate in our recruitment process.