Technical Lead (AWS & Java)

Legal Limited
London, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Testing (Software) Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Continuous Integration Distributed Systems Spring Framework Node.Js Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Data Logging Serverless Computing
+2 more
Docker Microservices

Job description

Experteer Overview As Technical Lead, you will shape engineering strategy and drive technical excellence across teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. You’ll act as a technical authority, mentoring engineers and guiding architecture, while fostering innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll influence technology decisions, ensure secure-by-design practices, and build robust observability and delivery performance. This role offers meaningful impact within a large financial services group. Pay / Benefits * Define and lead engineering strategy to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable technology * Drive a coherent quality engineering approach via testing standards, automation, and governance * Promote secure-by-design principles and address security risks * Establish and evolve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerts * Champion metrics-led engineering to improve delivery performance and reliability * Provide technical leadership on complex engineering challenges and guide high-impact decisions * Influence technology investments, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices across teams * Mentor, develop and empower engineers and foster a learning culture Tasks * Significant experience leading technical strategy across complex environments * Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, serverless tech, and microservices * Deep understanding of software testing, CI/CD, and Agile delivery * Experience implementing secure software development practices * Strong knowledge of observability, reliability engineering, and metrics-driven decisions * Proven ability to communicate complex concepts to senior stakeholders * Experience coaching and developing engineers to reach potential * Strong background in Java, AWS, Spring Framework, Node.js, Docker Key requirements * annual performance bonus * share schemes * Generous pension contribution * Life assurance * Healthcare Plan (permanent employees) * 25 days holiday plus holidays rest-of-year options to buy/sell

Requirements

guide engineering challenges and guide high-impact decisions * Influence technology investments, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices across teams * Mentor, develop and empower engineers and foster a learning culture Tasks * Significant experience leading technical strategy across complex environments * Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, serverless tech, and microservices * Deep understanding of software testing, CI/CD, and Agile delivery * Experience implementing secure software development practices * Strong knowledge of observability, reliability engineering, and metrics-driven decisions * Proven ability to communicate complex concepts to senior stakeholders * Experience coaching and developing engineers to reach potential * Strong background in Java, AWS, Spring Framework, Node.js, Docker Key requirements * annual performance bonus * share schemes * Generous pension contribution * Life assurance * Healthcare Plan (permanent aaaaa aaaC_ * 25 days holiday plus holidays rest-of-year options to buy/sell

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