Technical Development Team Lead

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Role: Technical Development Team Lead

Location: Edinburgh and London UK

Careers at TCS:
It means more

TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

As a Technical Development Team Lead, you will be key member of long‑lived delivery teams who can shape the delivery, provide technology leadership, guide and support the engineering team for the delivery of high‑quality, scalable, secure, and efficient software solutions. You will ensure the team is set up to accept, prioritize and deliver work for multiple products/projects and deliver to client’s standards with enduring quality.

• Contribute to implementation such as coding, automated testing, and creation of High‑level designs and architecture.
• Ensure technical needs are merged with feature changes, including operational cost reviews, quality, performance, resilience and recovery, and championing tech debt reduction.
• Lead defect triage and resolution to maintain stability and performance.
• Consolidate estimates using input from specialists in team.

• Ensure work meets criteria with clear scope and outcomes. Prioritizing the backlogs and managing the flow of work through the team. This also covers automation techniques to improve flow.
• Monitor team metrics (SLAs, OKRs, KPIs) and uphold estimation discipline.
• Working with engineering and tests leads to refining processes, tools and practices, embedding agile principles, CI/CD, and Dev Sec Ops , and SRE approaches, A.I. etc.

• Technical background in one or more of engineering, architecture, Dev Ops, technical BA, automated testing roles.
• Programming skills in Java based technologies, AWS and Python.
• Experience with Business Change and IT Delivery, both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Experience using team productivity and work planning tools (current client usage - Atlassian tools JIRA, Confluence)
• Working in team building software crossing multiple platforms and disciplines in a regulated environment.
• Engineering lifecycle and practices, branching, code review, release governance and change control.
• Engineering tool chains and alternative testing approaches such as Test‑Driven Development (TDD).
• Software Design Patterns and Software Architecture Patterns include deployment choices such as Cloud, PaaS, 3rd Party software. Microservices, APIs, event‑driven systems, data platforms and third‑party integrations.
• Software builds processes, automation, and deployment techniques. Production topics such as observability and monitoring opportunities.

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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