Unily is seeking a Tech Lead to guide the team’s approaches to software development, make strategic decisions, and align project goals with the organisation’s technical vision.
About Unily
Unily partners with the world’s largest and most complex enterprises to power Organizational Velocity through digital Employee Experience transformation. Iconic brands, including Estée Lauder Companies, CVS Health, and British Airways, use Unily’s market-leading Employee Experience platform to improve productivity, streamline communication, and foster a highly connected workplace.
Unily is the only triple leader recognized by all three of the major analysts. Unily is recognized as a Leader in the 2024 GartnerMagic Quadrantfor Intranet Packaged Solutions, the 2024 Forrester Wave: Intranet Platforms, and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024.
Job Purpose
The Tech Lead is a key technical leadership role, responsible for guiding the team’s approaches to software development, making strategic decisions, and aligning project goals with the organisation’s technical vision. This role does not involve line management of developers.
Main Responsibilities
* Contribute directly to the development work undertaken by the team.
* Help ensure successful team planning, review and retrospective events, helping guide technical solutions and ensuring planned work is feasible and in line with the product’s technical strategy.
* Work with engineers in your team to provide technical guidance and navigate the technical challenges they face.
* Ensure the team delivers high-quality, working software.
* Mentor engineers on technical skills, career development, and best practices, supporting their growth into future technical leaders.
* Support the software the team builds, through training, documentation, monitoring and assisting with incidents, bugs and questions about your domain.
* Define technical direction and priorities for projects, ensuring alignment with broader architectural goals and standards.
* Facilitate architectural discussions, setting standards for code quality, security, and performance within the team.
* Tackle the team’s most complex technical challenges, creating robust, scalable solutions to advance product goals.
* Collaborate with product managers, tech leads and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage trade-offs, and align solutions with user problems.
* Lead or support technical evaluations and feasibility studies, bringing insights from research and industry trends into the organisation.
* Drive process improvements, advocating for tools, practices, or methodologies that improve team efficiency and product quality.
* Identify technical debt and make strategic recommendations for refactoring and optimisation to support long-term product goals.
* Ensure the team and product maintain high standards of compliance in areas such as privacy, security and process adherence.
Requirements
* Excellent software development skills with a good understanding of software engineering principles, relevant languages and frameworks.
* Professional experience in senior development roles.
* A passion for developing high quality software.
* Skill in driving outcomes through collaboration, coaching, and mentorship rather than direct authority.
* A track record of working with agile practices and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
* Good communication skills, including delivering demos and presentations when needed.
* A desire to establish and support a collaborative and positive engineering culture.
* Expertise in Microsoft .NET and the full web stack, with a working knowledge of cloud technologies and architecture.
* Knowledge of: .net and .net framework, Azure cloud infrastructure and services, SQL Server, Automated testing frameworks and technologies, HTML and CSS, Angular, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Entra / AD, OAuth and OpenID, Redis, Service bus, Kubernetes / AKS
Why Work For Unily?
In addition to a generous base salary and discretionary company bonus, we offer a fantastic suite of benefits, including 25 days holiday plus an extra paid day off to enjoy your birthday, Vitality life cover, Aviva pension, life assurance, income protection and more. We are committed to sustainability and giving back to the community, and offer 1 fully paid volunteering day per year and an employee matching charity donation scheme.
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