Engineering Lead, Software Architect, DevOps

Engineering Lead - Digital Tools & Partnerships Up to £500 p/d (Inside IR35) Hybrid Working 6 months initially My client is a leading consultancy seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to support the Digital Tools & Partnerships workstream within a large-scale enterprise transformation programme. You'll be responsible for providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, driving engineering standards, overseeing complex integrations, and ensuring the successful delivery of scalable cloud-native solutions.

Job 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, Dev Ops, 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.

Key Requirements:

Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or 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 business-critical systems. Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and Dev Ops 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 with in Banking, Financial Services, or large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability practices. Experience supporting geographically distributed engineering teams. Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, or developer productivity tooling. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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