Reed
Technical Lead
- Daily Rate: £525 (Inside IR35)
- Location: London
- Job Type: Contract (6 months)
Join a prestigious management consultancy and technology services company as a Technical Lead. This role involves driving the design, engineering, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native data solutions for a major postal service provider with a rich history. This position is ideal for a technically strong engineering lead with expertise across data engineering, full-stack development, cloud platforms, and modern AI-enabled software delivery practices.
Day-to-day of the role:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of cloud-native data products and applications, including data ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions.
- Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles.
- Optimize solutions for cloud-native environments, focusing on more than just "lift-and-shift" migrations.
- Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/BDD), release management, and code quality governance.
- Promote and embed AI-assisted SDLC practices including automation, code generation, and test acceleration.
- Document all solutions in accordance with data and engineering standards.
- Deliver end-to-end applications leveraging modern APIs, data platforms, front-end interfaces, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Integrate analytics, data science, and operational data pipelines into front-line business applications.
- Support scalable and resilient architecture design across multi-cloud environments.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, and stakeholders across the business.
- Operate effectively within Agile delivery environments using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and contribute to capability development across the team.
- Advocate for modern engineering and data platform approaches.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js, backend development using Java or Python, building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications).
- Proficiency in data engineering & platforms (SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data wrangling).
- Experience delivering cloud-native solutions, ideally within Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or equivalent AWS or Azure experience.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD tooling, and multi-cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automated testing frameworks (TDD/BDD), release management, version control, and cloud deployment practices.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams and daily use of tools such as Jira and Confluence.
To apply for this Technical Lead position, please submit your CV
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