Engineering Team Lead (London)

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to provide leadership, project management and people management for one of our software development teams. The team in question develops data entry applications and supporting pipelines for in-house Operations personnel and field agents. Our team is responsible for back-end systems and improvements (built in Python and utilising AWS services and data stores) and applications used by our stakeholders (which can be React web front-ends or installed .NET applications). Projects are increasingly focused on automated enrichments driven by LLM agents and Machine Learning techniques.

Our ideal candidate will have real world experience leading successful software delivery, gained working with agile development teams, as a Scrum Master or as a contributing team member with a history of participation in project management and facilitation activities. You’ll be comfortable partnering with business stakeholders and helping IT development teams improve their effectiveness. You’ll be able to quickly apply your experience and associated skills so our team becomes even more successful.

This Team Lead role is broad. What areas do we feel are important?

• Building great relationships with our business stakeholders. Understanding our overall goals, organising activities to dig into detail of requirements and unearth risks and challenges, building trust that you are a safe pair of hands with project detail.
• Helping to clarify business goals for Engineering team members, and ensuring valuable technical quality and reliability work is well planned and understood by our key stakeholders.
• Building great relationships with developers on your team. Taking on line management responsibility for team members, helping them to grow in their careers and improve their effectiveness.
• Be involved with details of cases as your team is implementing them, proactively identifying and resolving impediments that might add risk to us delivering efficiently.
• Apply strong technical judgement to guide engineering decisions. Drawing on your experience in software development, help your team make well-informed technical choices that balance pragmatism and long-term system sustainability.
• Facilitating agile / Scrum processes within the team.
• Encouraging introspection, driving continuous improvement activities within the team.
• Helping the team to develop a sense of ownership of their work and their product, in particular encouraging them to improve their development, build and QA practices and advocating for non-functional system improvements.
• Getting involved in department improvements holistically. Through effective 1-1 networking or via best practice conversations with groups of colleagues, we’ll want to see our whole department improving from your energy, skills and experience.

Mintel is committed to building and supporting a diverse workforce, providing opportunities for all. 25% of our Engineering team and 24% of our Engineering leaders are women. We are committed to improving diversity within our team and supporting industry-wide improvement. We offer flexible working options and provide support, development and growth opportunities.