Engineering Lead

As an Engineering Lead, you will be accountable for the end to end technical delivery of complex, cloud native applications and data platforms, combining technical expertise with strong client partnership and stakeholder leadership.

You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, owning relationships, shaping solutions, and ensuring delivery aligns to both business and technical outcomes.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, data, and cloud, while remaining hand-on where needed.

Success in this role requires someone who is equally comfortable in front of a client as they are in the codebase.

• What you’ll be responsible for
• Client & Relationship Leadership
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for clients, building trusted, long-term relationships
• Translate client needs into clear technical strategies, balancing business outcomes with engineering excellence
• Lead client workshops, technical discussions, and solution shaping sessions
• Provide clear, confident communication on progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions
• Manage expectations and proactively address challenges, ensuring a high-quality client experience
• Partner with client stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to influence decision-making and drive alignment.
• Delivery Ownership & Leadership
• Own end-to-end delivery of projects – from discovery through to production and optimisation
• Lead and mentor engineers, setting direction, standards, and ways of working
• Drive delivery against milestones, managing risks, dependencies, and quality
• Collaborate with product, data, and cloud teams to ensure cohesive delivery
• Create a strong team culture focused on accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Architecture & Engineering
• Define scalable, secure, and resilient solution architectures across cloud, application, integration, and data platforms
• Lead the design and delivery of cloud-native, full-stack solutions using modern frontend, backend, and API technologies across AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance business objectives, security, scalability, cost, timelines, and operational requirements
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting high standards of code quality, performance, maintainability, security, and architectural governance
• Establish and advocate engineering best practices, design patterns, coding standards, and reusable frameworks across delivery teams
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and hand-on engineering where appropriate.
• Lead large-scale data migration and modernisation initiatives from legacy platforms to cloud-native data and database services across AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Design, build, and optimise scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using modern cloud data integration and orchestration services
• Design and implement secure, scalable data lake, lakehouse, and analytics platforms supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Establish robust data governance, quality, lineage, metadata management, and security practices to ensure trusted, compliant, and reliable data platforms
• Develop event-driven and real-time data integration solutions that enable scalable, resilient data processing and business intelligence
• Drive platform optimisation through automation, performance tuning, cost optimisation, and operational best practices.
• Quality, Dev Ops & Reliability
• Establish robust testing strategies across UI, API, and data layers
• Own CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and release processes
• Ensure systems are secure, observable, performant, and cost-efficient.
• What we’re looking for
• Proven experience as an Engineering Lead / Tech Lead in client-facing environments
• Strong ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders
• Comfortable leading conversations with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to balance hand-on engineering with leadership and client engagement.
• Technical expertise
• Strong commercial experience designing, building and supporting cloud-native solutions on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with serverless computing, event-driven architectures, container platforms, and managed cloud services
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and operational best practices
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (Cloud Formation or Bicep desirable).
• Compute & Containers
• AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS
• Azure Functions, Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Storage & Data
• Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Amazon Aurora Postgre SQL, RDS, Dynamo DB
• Azure Database for Postgre SQL, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB
• Integration & Messaging
• Amazon Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, API Gateway
• Azure Event Grid, Service Bus, API Management, Logic Apps
• Identity & Security
• AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store
• Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault
• Encryption, network security, RBAC, Zero Trust principles.
• Application Engineering

Backend : Python (Flask, Fast API), . NET/. NET Core, RESTful APIs and Graph QL, Microservices and event-driven architectures

• Data modelling, transformation and optimisation
• Data lake and lakehouse architectures
• Data governance, metadata management and lineage
• Large-scale cloud migration and data modernisation.
• Dev Ops & Delivery
• Git-based source control, branching strategies and code review practices
• CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI or AWS Code Pipeline
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Monitoring, logging and observability using Cloud Watch, Azure Monitor, Application Insights or equivalent
• Automated testing, release management and deployment strategies.
• Strong communicator – able to simplify complex ideas
• Commercially aware – understands client priorities and constraints
• Proactive and accountable – takes ownership beyond just delivery
• Collaborative leader who builds trust with both teams and clients.
• Nikao is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Nikao, we’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and diverse environment where every individual is recognised for their talent and potential.

Our hiring decisions are guided by your capabilities, experience, and what you bring to the role – not by unrelated personal attributes.

We have a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination or harassment.

This includes – but isn’t limited to – discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don’t tick every box in the job description, we’d still love to hear from you.

About the company

At Nikao Technology, we’re passionate about solving complex problems and building technology that genuinely makes a difference.

We provide expert digital consultancy and tailored solutions designed around our clients’ needs, helping them grow, transform, and succeed through high-quality engineering and delivery.

We combine innovation with real-world experience across cloud, data, and application engineering.

Our focus is on doing things properly – creating solutions that are scalable, practical, and built to last.

We work closely with our clients, building strong partnerships and consistently delivering work that exceeds expectations.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do.

We’re building a collaborative, supportive environment where you’re trusted to take ownership, grow your skills, and make an impact.

As we continue to grow, there’s real opportunity to shape the work we do, influence our clients, and be part of something exciting.

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