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
400.00 - 500.00 GBP Daily
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