Technical Lead​/Associate Architect – PHP​/Laravel; LAMP

Position: Technical Lead/Associate Architect – PHP / Laravel (LAMP)
Location: Greater London

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Job Title:

Technical Lead/Associate Architect - PHP / Laravel (LAMP)###

Location:

London, UK### Work Mode:
Remote###

Experience:

10-15 Years###

Job Description:

We are hiring a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, security posture and delivery quality of our business-critical ERP applications. You will write and review production code, set architectural direction. You will also work with infrastructure and security teams to keep our applications scalable, secure and resilient.### Technical Skills
* Core: PHP 5.x-8.x (deep OOP, SOLID, DRY, design patterns), Core PHP, Laravel 10.x-13.x, REST API design
* Data:
MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, replication/backup strategies)
* Platform:
Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
* Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
* CI/CD:
Jenkins, Git Hub Actions
* Testing:
Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools
* Template Engines:

Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
* Frontend:
JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3### Core Responsibilities/Capabilities:
* Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
* Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
* Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
* Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
* An eye for security vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, DDOS, XSS
* Partner with infrastructure/Dev Ops on CI/CD (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions), containerization and AWS hosting.
* Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
* Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
* Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
* Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR
* Secrets handling, CI/CD design, containerization and deployment safety.