Technical Lead (AWS Serverless & Microservices)

Were looking for a Technical Lead to help shape the future of our technology landscape. This is an opportunity to combine strategic technical leadership with people leadership guiding engineering teams to deliver secure scalable and high-quality solutions that create positive outcomes for our customers and business.

Working across multiple teams youll influence architectural direction champion engineering excellence and support the development of talented engineers in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

What youll be doing:

• Defining and leading engineering strategy and long-term technical direction across the technology estate 
• Driving quality engineering standards through automation testing practices and governance frameworks 
• Promoting secure-by-design principles and embedding security best practice across teams and platforms
• Establishing and evolving observability capabilities including logging metrics tracing and alerting 
• Championing metrics-led engineering to improve delivery performance reliability and customer outcomes 
• Providing technical guidance on complex engineering challenges and high-impact decisions 
• Influencing architecture tooling and investment decisions to support long-term business objectives
• Mentoring developing and empowering engineers while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and inclusion

Who were looking for:

• Significant experience providing technical leadership across complex engineering environments 
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies serverless architectures and microservices patterns
• Expertise in quality engineering automated testing strategies and CI/CD practices 
• Strong understanding of secure software development principles and security frameworks 
• Experience implementing observability strategies using logging metrics tracing and alerting tools 
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly 
• Experience coaching mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams 
• Technical expertise in technologies such as Java AWS Spring Framework Docker and modern Agile delivery practices

Whatever your role we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays 26 days after 2 years service. Theres also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• Were creating netzero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable modern offices across the UK all designed to bring people together and elevate the inperson experience

Additional Information :

At L&G we believe its possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us youll be part of a welcoming inclusive culture with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths potential and connection to our purpose. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time