Technical Lead
Technical Lead Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Contract: Permanent Salary: Up to £75,000 A long established and reputable UK distributor is seeking a Technical Lead to join their growing digital and technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of modern digital platforms and play a key role in driving technical excellence across the organisation.The Role As Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the architecture, integrity and performance of the organisation’s digital platforms. You will act as a bridge between application development and operational stability, ensuring systems are secure, well structured and scalable while guiding both internal and external technical teams.Key Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical integrity of digital platforms, ensuring stability, security and scalability.
- Lead the design and optimisation of GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to support structured, reliable and auditable deployments.
- Manage complex Middleware integrations and ensure seamless data flow between eCommerce front end and backend systems.
- Investigate and resolve API logic and data discrepancies at code level.
- Act as the primary technical authority for external development vendors and integration partners, auditing their work and enforcing internal standards.
- Diagnose and resolve complex development and platform issues with minimal supervision.
- Produce and maintain clear documentation covering systems, configurations and operational processes.
- Apply formal change control processes including versioning, peer reviews and structured release approvals.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting tools to ensure platform availability and performance.
- 5+ years in a Senior Engineering or DevOps role with hands on ownership of production e commerce environments.
- Strong scripting and automation skills across cloud and self hosted environments.
- Confident debugging Middleware and API interactions at application logic level.
- Proficient with the GitHub ecosystem for version control, release management and automation.
- Good understanding of transactional e commerce systems across B2B and D2C environments.
- Strong communicator able to translate business needs into actionable technical plans.
- Comfortable guiding and challenging external vendors to ensure high quality delivery.
- Experience working alongside ERP and wider systems teams to support platform architecture and integrations.
- Comprehensive training on internal systems and processes
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Health cash plan
- Staff discount on a wide range of products
- Free on site parking