Cloud Native Engineering Lead Location Belfast Hybrid Type Permanent Compensation Market leading salary, pension and shares About the company A fast scaling Northern Ireland success story continues to expand right through 2025. The team prides itself on solving complex problems with elegant, cloud native technology, and they are now hiring a Cloud Native Engineering Lead to join their journey. The opportunity This is a senior leadership role combining technical depth with people leadership. You will stay hands on across architecture and delivery while guiding a talented engineering team. Expect to influence technical strategy, shape product direction and build cloud native software deployed globally. What you will do Lead a distributed engineering team and set the standard for delivery and code quality Drive technical design and architectural decisions across services and platforms Build and scale back end services using Node and Python Design and optimise data models spanning PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch Deliver infrastructure and DevOps improvements across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub CI CD, GitLab CI, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch Collaborate with product and design to deliver features that matter Champion high quality engineering with TDD, BDD, unit and integration testing Mentor engineers, coach the team and grow technical capability The stack you will work with Backend Node.js, Typescript, Python Frontend React, Redux, Svelte, HTML, CSS Data RDBMS, Snowflake, NoSQL, Elastic, Redis DevOps AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI CD GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins Monitoring Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch What you bring Proven leadership as a Senior or Lead Engineer within product led environments Strong back end engineering skills across multiple languages and frameworks Experience with cloud native platforms and containerised deployments Track record delivering high scale, data intensive applications Ability to balance hands on coding with team leadership and mentoring A collaborative mindset and a passion for building outstanding software Nice to have Open source product development experience Payments, licensing or SaaS exposure Background in security, DevOps or data engineering What is on offer The chance to lead cloud native engineering in a fast growing tech company Hybrid working with flexibility and autonomy Clear progression into architecture or broader technical leadership A collaborative culture with modern tooling and continuous delivery OCHO have placed numerous Senior and Staff Engineers with this client and have excellent testimonials available. Connect with Ryan Quinn on LinkedIn for an informal discussion. Skills: Python AWS React. Node Java Datadog Benefits: pension options