Job Title: Engineering Lead
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of engineers, ensuring high levels of technical capability, collaboration, and performance.
- Provide day-to-day technical direction and ensure delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Review existing engineering practices and identify opportunities to enhance code quality, system performance, maintainability, and operational robustness.
- Promote modern engineering standards across the function, including automation, testing, observability, and DevOps practices.
- Ensure that engineering improvement initiatives are Embedded meaningfully and not treated as compliance-driven or tick-box exercises.
- Champion agile methodologies and provide coaching to teams with varying levels of agile maturity.
- Evaluate the operating model of each team to determine the most appropriate delivery approach; ensure practices are tailored rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency through process refinement, tooling enhancements, or adoption of new technology.
- Support continuous delivery and iterative improvement while maintaining quality, stability, and operational alignment.
- Support the enhancement of service management processes (incident, problem, change) to strengthen operational reliability and user satisfaction.
- Partner with operations teams to improve monitoring, documentation, support models, and overall service performance.
- Work with technical teams to ensure effective handover into BAU service and alignment with organisational standards.
- Partner with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and global real estate teams to understand requirements and support delivery of the technology roadmap.
- Facilitate alignment across engineering, product, and service management functions to ensure clear communication and shared delivery goals.
Essential Skills
- Proven experience leading engineering teams within a complex, multi-team or enterprise environment.
- Strong technical background in software engineering and modern cloud-based or distributed system architectures.
- Familiarity with modern DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and engineering quality frameworks.
- Deep understanding of agile delivery practices and demonstrable experience coaching teams with diverse working styles.
- experience defining, implementing, and embedding engineering best practices at scale.
- Knowledge of IT service management principles and experience contributing to service improvement.
Location
Sheffield, UK
Rate / Salary
.00 GBP Daily
