Lead Engineer

Engineering Lead

💰 £480-500/day (Inside IR35) | 📅 12-Month Contract

📍 London / Bristol (2 days onsite)

Our client is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable enterprise technology solutions within a fast-paced cloud and digital engineering environment. You’ll work closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders. The role requires a strong balance of technical depth, leadership capability, and stakeholder engagement, with responsibility for driving engineering best practices, delivery quality, and team performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own technical architecture, engineering standards, and solution design principles
• Lead architecture and design reviews ensuring scalability, resilience, and security
• Provide hands-on guidance for complex technical challenges and engineering decisions
• Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, code quality, testing, and DevOps
• Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives within agreed timelines
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into deliverables
• Manage backlog prioritisation, sprint execution, and delivery planning
• Ensure quality through robust code reviews, testing practices, and automation
• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams
• Drive coaching, performance management, and capability growth
• Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and accountability
• Support hiring, onboarding, and resource planning activities
• Act as the bridge between business and engineering teams
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, and delivery progress clearly to stakeholders
• Drive process improvement, automation, and engineering efficiency initiatives
• Identify opportunities for modernisation, optimisation, and cost reduction

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in modern software engineering using technologies such as:
• Java
• .NET
• APIs and cloud-native development
• Strong understanding of architecture, integration, and distributed system design
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
• Strong ownership of engineering delivery and technical outcomes
• Ability to balance hands-on technical contribution with leadership responsibilities
• Experience working within Agile and cross-functional delivery environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced enterprise delivery environments

If this is relevant to your experience, please apply with your CV and we'll be in touch. Thanks!