Technical Lead

The Technical Lead will own the technical implementation of a product or programme, including guiding engineers, ensuring code quality, integrating quality, and ensuring efficient delivery. This is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Head of IT Transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership

• Lead developers and engineers across multiple modules.
• Make key technical decisions during delivery.
• Ensure code quality, coding standards, DevOps practices, and documentation.

System Build & Integration

• Translate solution designs into detailed technical tasks.
• Design APIs, data models, and integration flows.
• Perform code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, manage performance optimization.

Delivery Execution

• Work with stakeholders, project team and Product Owner to plan delivery and remove blockers.
• Ensure quality of deliverables - integrations, SIT, VAPT and performance testing.
• Ensure timely, stable delivery of releases.

Stakeholder and team collaboration

• Act as a bridge between teams: Collaborate with various departments, such as IT, marketing, sales, and design, to align on goals and execution.
• Manage stakeholder relationships: Keep stakeholders informed and gather their feedback to ensure the platform meets their needs.
• Foster collaboration: Encourage a collaborative and performance-driven culture within the team and across the organization.
• Platform adoption: Ensure the solution / platform is understood, used properly, and delivers benefits

Job Qualifications:

• 6 to 10 years of engineering experience, and solid hands-on coding capability
• People leadership capabilities
• Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills, and is able to translate complex technical matters into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
• Strong ownership mentality, with a bias for delivery and continuous improvement
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide structure, direction, and clarity to the team
• Practical conflict-resolution skills and the ability to align diverse viewpoints towards a common solution