Applications Technical Lead

Applications Technical Lead - Based in Newcastle - £80k up to £90k plus car or car allowance, plus bonus, pension, healthcare. Newcastle office based two days per week - home based the rest. Key tech & systems/application experience needed:
Git Hub Copilot experience is essential Azure Dev Ops experience is essential SDLC experience is a must too This role will suit a Senior Developer and/or Tech Lead - who can manage a team off three - .NET/Oracle and SQL skilled developers. Essential skills & experience Strong technical understanding of business platforms Strong knowledge of .NET/SQL & Oracle Solid experience with enterprise integration patterns, API design, asynchronous messaging and data synchronisation Proven experience providing technical leadership across onshore and offshore teams, including line management responsibility Track record of improving engineering quality, release readiness and handover into live service Strong ability to review designs, identify risks and ensure solutions meet clear quality standards Good understanding of Dev Ops, CI/CD, secure design and modern delivery practices Experience working in blended delivery environments including permanent teams, contractors and System Integrators Core responsibilities Define and maintain engineering standards, patterns and guardrails across business platforms, ensuring consistency in how solutions are designed and delivered Review and assure solution designs, identifying risks, poor practices or gaps, and supporting better decisions before build begins Assess delivery quality and readiness, solutions are maintainable, testable and prepared for smooth transition into live service Technical leadership across mixed delivery teams, escalation point and guiding engineering quality through influence and clarity Support release and transition readiness, ensuring documentation, knowledge transfer and support expectations are in place Work closely with engineering, product and operational teams to maintain alignment across design, build and ongoing support The Senior Technical Lead provides technical leadership across business platforms, ensure solutions are well designed, consistent, and ready for long-term use.

Alongside this, the role includes a small amount of line management for UK-based team members. This is not a hands-on coding role. Instead, you will define and guide how engineering work is done-setting standards, shaping patterns, and acting as a clear escalation point for both onshore and offshore delivery teams. Ensure partners make sure solutions are built in the right way from the start-aligned to agreed standards, easy to support, fit for live service.

Improving quality, consistency, and confidence in delivery. What will you be doing? You will define and maintain the standards that guide how solutions are built across business platforms. Setting clear expectations for configuration, customisation, integration, and API usage, as well as ensuring delivery outputs meet agreed standards for documentation, testing and handover into live service. You will review solution designs at key stages, making sure they align with architecture, meet business needs, and avoid unnecessary complexity or risk.

Where issues arise, you'll challenge constructively, highlight technical debt, and ensure decisions are made with the long term in mind. Working across delivery - assess quality & readiness of what's being built ensuring solutions are not only working, but are maintainable, testable & ready to be supported in live environments. You'll play a key role in release readiness, making sure the right documentation, knowledge transfer and support expectations are in place.

Work with other senior engineering leads, as well as Product, Business Analysis, QA, Security and Operations teams, helping ensure alignment across the full delivery lifecycle-from build through to run. We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
Matched or contributory pension scheme In addition, this role offers;
Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from My…