Technical Lead Developer

We are looking for an experienced React Technical Lead to provide technical leadership within an Agile delivery team. The role combines hands-on development with day-to-day technical oversight of React developers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable front-end solutions.

The Technical Lead will be responsible for sprint-level planning and coordination for the front-end team, code quality governance, technical mentoring, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and front-end best practices established by the wider React engineering community., * Lead and coordinate the front-end development activities within a Scrum team.

• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, and development teams to plan and deliver sprint commitments.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks and support estimation, sprint planning, and backlog refinement activities.
• Provide technical guidance and day-to-day support to React developers.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, architectural principles, and engineering best practices.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify technical risks, and proactively resolve blockers impacting the team.
• Collaborate with Senior React Developers and broader front-end architecture groups to adopt new standards, frameworks, patterns, and development practices.
• Ensure consistent implementation of agreed front-end architectures, design patterns, accessibility requirements, and testing standards across the team.
• Support application design discussions and provide input into technical solution approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to code quality, automation, performance, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Promote knowledge sharing and mentor team members to improve technical capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for front-end development within the Scrum team.

• Deep understanding of front-end architecture, component-based development, state management, and API integration patterns.
• Extensive experience with Redux or similar state management frameworks.
• Strong experience integrating applications through RESTful APIs.
• Experience defining and enforcing front-end engineering standards and best practices.
• Strong understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and accessible UI development practices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent tools.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitLab, branching strategies, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience leading code reviews, technical mentoring, and team-level technical governance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as Pega Constellation using React SDK.
• Experience with micro-frontend architectures and design systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native application development and deployment practices.
• Experience implementing quality, accessibility, and testing standards within CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical leadership and decision-making.
• Sprint planning and work coordination.
• Coaching and mentoring developers.
• Stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management skills.
• Focus on engineering quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.