Lead Engineer; Specialist in Digital Enterprise Services

Lead Engineer (Specialist) in Digital Enterprise Services, Technology Directorate

Leeds, United Kingdom

Permanent

Full time

Flexible Working Options

• Job share
• Flexible start and end time each day
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed for school run, gym, or appointments
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and team policy)
• A 50% in‑office attendance requirement spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as purchasing a weekly train ticket for certain weeks

Opportunities in Leeds

We’re growing our presence in Leeds. Our modern, accessible office in the city centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. You’ll work collaboratively with London‑based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office.

A day in the role

A typical day starts with a stand‑up alongside a cross‑functional team of engineers and delivery stakeholders. This is where you review progress across projects and environments, surface blockers, and align on priorities for the day – particularly around deployments, platform stability, and upcoming releases.

Next, you’ll focus on hands‑on technical work for the projects you’re currently assigned to, including refining CI/CD pipelines in Git Hub, implementing infrastructure changes using Terraform, and troubleshooting Azure services such as Azure Networking, Data Factory, App Services, Azure SQL Databases and Entra ’ll often work across multiple environments (dev, uat, production), ensuring configurations remain consistent, secure and aligned with best practices.

As the lead engineer, a significant part of your role involves supporting and mentoring other engineers. You’ll review pull requests, provide feedback on infrastructure and pipeline design, and guide the team toward reusable, scalable patterns, ensuring agreed engineering standards and best practices are consistently applied across projects.

In the afternoon you may lead technical workshops or refinement calls for projects, focusing on creating tickets that map to project requirements, solution design, security considerations and upcoming platform changes, and often working through designs with developers, architects and delivery leads.

You may spend time documenting standards and best practices, updating project documents, and progressing documentation tasks for tickets you’re assigned – for example, defining new deployment patterns, documenting environment configuration or capturing decisions made during design sessions.

Before logging off, you’ll tidy up the backlog, update progress on technical tasks and make notes for upcoming meetings such as design reviews, security discussions or planning sessions scheduled for the following day.

Role Requirements

As part of this role you will be responsible for monitoring Azure elements related to our applications and troubleshooting any issues. You will run certain platform features such as deploying golden images, managing subscriptions, building resources and upgrading App Services. You will also support the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Data teams with platform support and build.

The role requires strong development competency, experience in Agile and Dev Ops methodologies and the ability to inform best‑practice design. It also requires mentoring and peer reviewing, and advising on complex operational incidents and problems.

Key capabilities

• Experience operating platforms in a controlled environment with strict change control.
• Demonstrable experience deploying, configuring and supporting Azure App Services, including application hosting, networking, security integration, scaling, monitoring and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including design, deployment and maintenance of reusable, modular Azure infrastructure through automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Azure monitoring, logging and observability tools.
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