Engineering Team Lead - AI-Driven SaaS on Azure

Jobtailor; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Lead in Leeds to drive technical direction, build high-performing teams, and deliver scalable SaaS platforms. You will own the design, development, deployment, and modernization of critical systems, aligning with architectural standards and governance.

You will champion AI-assisted and agentic engineering, advance automation across CI/CD and testing, and collaborate across Platform, Architecture, Security, and Product teams.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience with people leadership.
• Strong C# and .NET / ASP.NET Core proficiency.
• Experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Azure, CI/CD, automated testing and modern practices.
• Experience with React and TypeScript frontend.
• Experience in regulated SaaS or financial services environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team’s technical direction, people development, and end-to-end delivery.
• Own systems across design, development, deployment, operation, modernization, and continuous improvement.
• Lead design decisions aligned with architecture and engineering standards.
• Drive modernization, simplification, and technical debt reduction.
• Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, maintainability, testing, observability, and production readiness.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and agentic development.
• Translate product priorities into achievable engineering outcomes.
• Drive automation across testing, CI/CD, deployment, and operations.
• Use engineering data to improve quality and delivery effectiveness.
• Build solutions using Azure, cloud-native and reusable platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, and Product.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and communicate risks and trade-offs.
• Contribute to engineering-wide standards and improvement initiatives.
• Report to the Director of Engineering.

Skills

Technical leadership

C# programming

React development

TypeScript

APIs

Distributed systems

Azure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Event-driven architecture

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Software Engineering

Tools

ASP.NET Core

React

TypeScript

SQL Server

Azure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Microservices

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Lead in Leeds to drive technical direction, build high-performing teams, and deliver scalable SaaS platforms. You will own the design, development, deployment, and modernization of critical systems, aligning with architectural standards and governance.

You will champion AI-assisted and agentic engineering, advance automation across CI/CD and testing, and collaborate across Platform, Architecture, Security, and Product teams.