At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical standards and guide engineering quality across business platforms.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company with a global reach and innovative culture.
- Benefits: Up to £90k salary, car allowance, hybrid work, healthcare, and 25 days leave.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and a supportive work-life balance.
- Why this job: Shape the future of business applications and make a real impact in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong technical background in business platforms and experience in leading diverse teams.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Based in Northeast of England - Up to £90k plus car or car allowance, plus bonus, pension, healthcare. Hybrid Role.
Essential skills & experience
- Strong technical understanding of business platforms such as Jitterbit, IFS, IMS or similar
- 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 DevOps, CI/CD, secure design and modern delivery practices
- Experience working in blended delivery environments including permanent teams, contractors and System Integrators
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at different levels
- Experience working on large-scale enterprise programmes or platform transformations
- Broad understanding of architecture across data, mobile and security domains
- Familiarity with ITIL-aligned operating models or service transition practices
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, ensuring solutions are maintainable, testable and prepared for smooth transition into live service
- Provide technical leadership across mixed delivery teams, acting as an 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, helping 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.
What will you be doing?
You will define and maintain the standards that guide how solutions are built across business platforms. This includes 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. You'll also work closely with other senior engineering leaders, 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
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Reward and recognition 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 Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Business Applications Technical Lead - Northeast office in North East employer: MORGAN PHILIPS UK LIMITED
As a Business Applications Technical Lead at our Northeast office, you will join a forward-thinking company that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth. We offer a competitive salary package, including a company car or allowance, private healthcare, and a generous pension scheme, all within a supportive hybrid work environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee development is reflected in our comprehensive benefits and recognition programmes, making us an exceptional employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
