Technical Lead

A leading global innovation and transformation consultancy is expanding its technology practice and is looking to hire experienced Technical Leads to join its London-based team.

This is an exciting opportunity for engineering leaders who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, mentoring high-performing teams, and delivering enterprise-scale digital solutions. They're particularly interested in candidates with strong engineering fundamentals who also have experience working with modern data platforms and AI-enabled software engineering practices.

• Leading the technical delivery of complex, enterprise-scale cloud solutions
• Acting as the technical authority across architecture, engineering, solution design and delivery
• Providing hands-on technical leadership while mentoring engineering teams and promoting engineering best practices
• Working closely with clients to translate business requirements into scalable, high-quality technical solutions
• Driving continuous improvement across the full software delivery lifecycle
• Championing modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted software development, automation and productivity improvements
• Supporting the delivery of data-intensive platforms and enterprise technology solutions

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or Senior Software Engineer with leadership responsibilities
• Strong software engineering and system design background
• Experience delivering enterprise applications using AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong engineering experience with technologies such as Python, SQL, Java, .NET or JavaScript
• Experience working with modern enterprise data technologies such as Snowflake and/or Databricks
• Good understanding of enterprise data platforms, data architecture, on-premise lakehouse architectures and enterprise systems
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and modern testing practices
• Agile delivery experience (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience adopting AI tools within software engineering environments to improve delivery, quality and developer productivity
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and client-facing skills

They're particularly keen to speak with candidates from private sector organisations with strong engineering cultures, including fintech and similar technology-driven businesses.

Please note this is not a pure data engineering role. Successful candidates will combine strong software engineering leadership with exposure to enterprise data platforms and modern engineering practices.

• Competitive salary and performance-related bonus
• Flexible working alongside a collaborative engineering culture
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy additional leave
• Excellent pension, private healthcare and wellbeing benefits
• Clear career progression and opportunities to work on high-impact digital transformation programmes

This is a London-based hybrid role, requiring travel to the client site three days per week. Applicants should be based in London or able to commit to this requirement.

Apply now with your latest CV to be considered for this exciting opportunity.