Tech Lead

About the Role

Working in our Enterprise IT function you’ll be supporting our business to deliver their priorities and objectives.  You’ll be contributing to Helping Britain Achieve Net Zero. We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success.  We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment.

We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Platform Enterprise team shape the future of our technology landscape.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager in the Enterprise Platform team, The Platform Technical Lead will provide technical leadership, guide engineering practices and ensure our solutions align with long term architectural principles and business objectives.

Our Enterprise Platform practise ensures our systems are robust, secure, and future ready.

The team collaborates closely with colleagues in engineering, security, service management, business units and product teams to solve complex challenges, reduce technical risk, and unlock innovation.

You’ll join us on a salary starting from £57,600 per annum (depending on experience), with the potential for an annual bonus. This is hybrid working role, that balances time at home and on site to support collaboration and delivery. There will therefore be occasional travel to our offices within the UK.

If you are enthusiastic about delivering reliable enterprise services and want to drive technical excellence, this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of our technology landscape.

Who You Are

To be successful in this role you’ll have strong expertise in Unix compute and/or storage platforms

You’ll have knowledge of traditional and modern on-premises architectures

Familiarity with monitoring and management tools

Strong understanding of ITIL frameworks and operational best practices

Excellent troubleshooting skills and experience handling high severity incidents

Strong communication skills, able to explain complex issues to non-technical audiences

Experience leading infrastructure migrations, or hardware refresh initiatives.

Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments (AWS/Azure)

Working collaboratively with the wider Enterprise Platform team and business colleagues to create a great place to work

You’re committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business – financially, environmentally and socially

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC), which will ordinarily require you to have British residency for the last five years.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll form part of the technical authority for our Enterprise services - spanning compute, storage, virtualisation, middleware, and core infrastructure components

You’ll guide technical decision making, shape engineering standards, and provide leadership to help platform teams deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that underpin our most critical systems

You’ll raise and monitor technical risks and support mitigation planning with Enterprise product managers and owners

You’ll collaborate closely with product teams, security, and operational teams to ensure our enterprise platforms remain stable, performant, and future ready

You’ll ensure high availability and performance of critical systems through proactive capacity planning and robust operational practices

You’ll oversee the lifecycle of on prem infrastructure: provisioning, configuration, automation, monitoring, and optimisation

You’ll engage with business units to understand their service priorities and recovery readiness including regular testing regimes

You’ll work closely with our partner organisations to ensure services are consistently maintained.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary from £57,600pa (depending on experience) and potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

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Closing date: Monday 4th May