Engineering Team Lead

The Adaptavist Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to manage a skilled team of engineers. This dynamic role involves technical leadership, stakeholder management, and driving innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, particularly in Java, and significant experience with AWS and modern engineering practices. Join a diverse and inclusive team that values flexibility and personal growth.

Benefits

Unlimited Holiday Allowance

Flexible Working Hours

MacBook Provided

Paid Leave for Parents

Qualifications

• Proven programming skills in Java and experience with common frameworks.
• Significant experience with AWS services such as Kinesis, S3, IAM, and Lambda.
• Line management experience and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day activities of a high-functioning engineering team.
• Liaise with stakeholders to identify additional value delivery.
• Assist with Sprint ceremonies and backlog management.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Programming

Self-Motivation

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Apache Airflow

Apache Flink

Job description

Working at The Adaptavist Group
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
What we offer you
We offer an unlimited holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.
Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.
Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
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About the role
As an Engineering Team Lead within Internal Services Engineering, you will play a critical part in running some of the teams that are responsible for services across TAG. This is a dynamic role that requires both technical leadership and visionary direction, and will champion the advancement and application of various key services that deliver value across the company.
By leading a skilled team of data and software engineers, you will unlock new possibilities in areas such as process automation, data ingestion, enrichment, log streaming, event data analysis and system-to-system integrations. Engineering Team leads need to be full-stack developers who are happy to identify and learn new technologies/frameworks in order to drive business value. If this is something you are passionate about, this could be the perfect opportunity!

What you’ll do

Leadership

• Manage the day to the day activities of a high-functioning engineering team
• Liaise with key business stakeholders, identifying where additional value can be delivered incrementally over time within the owned subject area
• Take ambiguous needs from the business and turn these into technical tasks to be completed by the engineering team
• Be accountable for the successful daily execution of BAU Prod activity
• Work alongside other engineering team leads within the office of COO, contributing to the overall engineering and service strategy.

People management

• Prioritise tasks and communicate these to team members
• Mentor, coach, and inspire the engineering team resources within the wider organization
• Support the creation of internal SOW and track them through to completion
• Support the team by owning and managing escalations

Engineering

• Assist with Sprint ceremonies and management of the engineering teams backlog
• Explore new technologies to identify new patterns and trends
• Ensure that best practice is followed by the team and pay back technical debt

What we're looking for

• Advanced stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence key decision-makers
• Able to balance short-term tactical demands against long-term objectives, particularly the avoidance of creating technical debt
• Able to say ‘No’ in potentially challenging situations and manage issues
• Proven programming skills and ability to train others in Java. Combined with this, the experience of the common frameworks used within the programming languages ecosystem
• Significant experience with AWS and IaC and services such as Kinesis, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda and S3
• Line management experience
• Able to work on own initiative, self-motivated, and time efficiently
• Able to communicate technical solutions/issues to technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders
• Experience with streaming technologies
• Kubernetes experience
• Kafka experience
• Experience with Apache Airflow and Apache Flink

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.
Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!
What to expect
We have published some support on Interviewing with The Adaptavist Group to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.
You can read them here
Equal opportunities for everyone
At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.
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We look forward to your application!