Tech Lead - Fitness & Wellbeing

Overview

Were looking for an experienced Tech Lead to play a pivotal role in re-platforming our Fitness & Wellbeing technology ecosystem. This high-impact role shapes technical direction, upholds engineering standards and delivers scalable solutions that support millions of member interactions. We are transforming the digital experience for members and employees across our Fitness & Wellbeing estate, aiming for a best-in-class member app with a fully paperless join process, digital booking, payments, account management and personalised recommendations.

Behind the scenes, employees will work digitally with end-to-end automated member management and payments.

• Provide technical leadership across the workstream, spanning Digital, Integrations, Salesforce and Data Engineering.
• Own and define low-level solution designs, including integration with third-party systems.
• Act as the accountable lead for engineering quality, consistency and delivery pace across multiple work streams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Managers and third-party partners to align technical approaches and manage dependencies.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to Nuffield Health's enterprise architecture and software engineering standards, with clear end-to-end design across platforms.
• Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to engineering teams, promoting best practice and high standards, without line management responsibility.
• Identify and mitigate cross-workstream technical risks.
• Support service management transition, ensuring solutions are stable, maintainable and operationally ready.
• Lead with strong ownership of engineering quality and outcomes in technical design and delivery.

• Broad technical experience across mobile and web development, API integrations, data engineering and Salesforce ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (preferably Microsoft Azure) using Dev Ops practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in multi-supplier or partner environments.
• Desirable: deep technical expertise in one or more of the following: cross-platform mobile app development (ideally React Native with Expo); web development (React.js, Node.js, HTML, CSS/Sass);
  Java API integrations;
  Data Engineering;
  Salesforce.
• Knowledge of CMS platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager.
• Experience integrating payment services (e.g. Adyen).
• Knowledge of the fitness & wellbeing industry.

At Nuffield Health, our people are at the heart of delivering connected healthcare and fitness experiences. We offer a benefits package with options in fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, including free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.