Engineering Lead - Hybrid, Secure & Scalable

Benefact Group plc; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Group Pension up to 12%

Bonus 7.5–30% on target

28 days leave + holidays

Private healthcare & life assurance

Charity grant £200 annually

Volunteer day per year

Employee Assistance Programme

Study support for qualifications

Virtual GP access

Enhanced parental pay

Job summary

Benefact Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Gloucester to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and line management. You’ll set direction, coach engineers, and ensure secure, scalable platforms aligned with business outcomes.

You’ll work with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and delivery leadership to drive strategy and deliver complex tasks, while hands-on coding remains a core part of your role.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with modern languages and practices.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions.
• Knowledge of secure coding, architecture, and governance.
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automation.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise, driving design, development, code quality, debugging, debt reduction and delivery planning.
• Define and govern engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices for scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams, supporting recruitment, growth and performance management.
• Drive delivery excellence and operational maturity across CI/CD, DevOps, platform reliability and SaaS integrations.
• Manage stakeholders, technical assets, and third-party partners with clear governance and security standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Complex solutions

Secure coding

DevOps CI/CD

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

.NET

Job description

Benefact Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Gloucester to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and line management. You’ll set direction, coach engineers, and ensure secure, scalable platforms aligned with business outcomes.

You’ll work with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and delivery leadership to drive strategy and deliver complex tasks, while hands-on coding remains a core part of your role.