Engineering Team Leader in Leeds

• Lead the engineering team’s technical direction, people development, and end-to-end delivery
• Own systems and services across design, development, deployment, operation, modernisation, and continuous improvement
• Lead design decisions aligned with StarCompliance architecture and engineering standards
• Drive modernisation, simplification, and technical-debt reduction
• Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, maintainability, testing, observability, and production readiness
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices, including automated validation and guardrails
• Translate product priorities into achievable engineering outcomes
• Drive automation across testing, CI/CD, deployment, and operational processes
• Use engineering, production, and incident data to improve quality and delivery effectiveness
• Build solutions using modern Azure, cloud-native, and reusable platform capabilities
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, and Product
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and communicate delivery, technical risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders
• Contribute to engineering-wide standards, forums, and improvement initiatives
• Report to the Director of Engineering

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience, including technical and people leadership
• Strong experience with C# and modern .NET / ASP.NET Core
• Strong understanding of APIs, software architecture, and modern integration patterns
• Strong experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning
• Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging
• Experience building and operating enterprise SaaS or cloud-hosted applications
• Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly SQL Server
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering practices
• Understanding of observability, resilience, performance, and secure software development
• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic development approaches
• Experience supporting or leading AI-first or agentic engineering transformation
• Proven ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, allocate resources, and influence across teams
• Strong technical judgement, communication, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience within regulated SaaS or financial-services technology

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, driving modernization and automation, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Proficient in C#, .NET, Azure, and modern engineering practices, with a strong focus on scalability, security, and performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• C# Programming
• ASP.NET Core Development
• Microsoft Azure
• Microservices Architecture
• AI-Assisted Engineering

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• APIs
• Infrastructure as Code
• Event-Driven Architecture
• SQL Server
• React
• TypeScript
• Automated Testing
• CI/CD
• Distributed Systems

Soft Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Communication
• Coaching
• Stakeholder Management
• Resource Allocation

Certifications & Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science
• Degree in Software Engineering

Industry Keywords

• SaaS
• Financial Services Technology
• Regulated Environment
• Engineering Standards
• Continuous Improvement