Engineering Lead

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Slough
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

.NET Core C# Angular React Azure Kubernetes CI/CD AI-Assisted Engineering

FULL DESCRIPTION

Engineering Lead

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group is hiring an Engineering Lead. This is a permanent, hybrid position based in Slough, UK. Salary is competitive. The role combines technical leadership, agile delivery, and people management.

The Vacancy

Opportunity

This is an opportunity to join [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group as we transform into an AI-first company delivering cloud-native solutions that impact millions of lives globally. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] produces an integrated suite of mission-critical software applications spanning accountancy, HR, payroll, education, and business operations. You will be working as part of an Agile team to deliver innovative solutions to user stories and requirements, contributing to our modernisation journey that serves over 100,000 customers across 135 countries.

Role Purpose

The Engineering Lead is a hybrid leadership role that combines technical leadership, agile delivery ownership, and people management. You will lead an autonomous engineering team building modern full-stack web applications using the latest UI frameworks, .NET Core backends, and cloud-native technologies, ensuring both delivery excellence and team development while remaining technically hands-on with containerised, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Delivery Management (40%): Ensure projects are scoped, prioritised, and delivered on time with clear alignment to business goals and quarterly OKRs. Drive predictability, velocity, and quality through effective agile practices. Communicate proactively with stakeholders. Facilitate alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives.
  • Technical Leadership & Contribution (40%): Provide strategic technical leadership through architectural guidance and critical technical decisions, with selective hands-on contributions. Define technical decisions and maintain system health. Establish and drive comprehensive quality culture including TDD/BDD practices. Define team security standards. Stay technically current. Delegate technical execution. Define AI strategy. Empower team decision-making. Define team documentation strategy.
  • People Management (20%): Line manage engineers including coaching, performance reviews, career planning, and regular 1:1s. Create inclusive, collaborative environment. Develop team members through structured career development. Handle performance management.

Required Experience & Skills

  • Frontend Strategy: Strategic understanding of modern UI frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js, Blazor)
  • Backend Leadership: Strong understanding of .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core Web APIs, REST, application architectures, and distributed systems
  • Data Architecture: Strategic knowledge of SQL, NoSQL and data architecture decisions
  • AI-Assisted Software Engineering: Experience with integrating AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Devin, Claude Code, etc.) in engineering practices
  • CI/CD Strategy: Define team CI/CD strategy, establish team governance frameworks, and ensure adoption of deployment best practices
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM Templates or AWS CloudFormation/CDK
  • Observability Strategy: DataDog, Application Insights or Amazon CloudWatch implementation
  • Cloud Strategy: Strategic SAAS using Azure (Functions, Queue, Blob Storage, VMs, etc) or AWS (Lambda, SQS/SNS, EC2, etc.) ecosystems
  • Container Orchestration: Advanced Container (e.g. Docker) and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) with production-scale deployments
  • Architecture Governance: Expertise in clean architecture, domain-driven design, and application architectural patterns
  • Scalable Solutions: Experience with highly scalable solutions and internet-facing traffic levels
  • Quality & Testing Leadership: Define team testing strategy, establish quality governance
  • Application Security: Confident vulnerability management, thread modelling and tracking
  • Production Support: Knowledge of observability and production support practices

Benefits & Why Join [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

  • Competitive salary with leadership premium
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Private medical healthcare
  • Life assurance - Pension (location dependent)
  • Professional development: Executive leadership programs, conference speaking, advanced training, mentorship
  • Culture: Great Place to Work certified, Best Workplaces for Women, flexible working, cycle to work, charity days, discount schemes

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group is one of the UK's largest privately held software companies. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy. Over 4 million parents use our software, 18% of UK employees are paid via an [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees.

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