Engineering Lead in Woking

Engineering Lead in Woking

Woking Full-Time 63000 - 77000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
Hays

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead engineering teams and drive innovative digital solutions in a dynamic environment.
  • Company: Join a leading consultancy transforming enterprises with cutting-edge technology.
  • Benefits: Competitive pay, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Other info: Exciting projects in a collaborative culture with excellent career advancement.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact by guiding teams through complex engineering challenges.
  • Qualifications: Proven experience in engineering leadership and strong backend software skills.

The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.

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, DevOps, 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 DevOps 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 within 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.

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Engineering Leadership
Technical Oversight
Engineering Standards
Architecture Best Practices
API Design and Implementation
Microservices
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