Engineering Team Lead: Cloud-Native & Hands-On Leader

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Manager-level role

Technical autonomy

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking an Engineering Team Lead in Belfast to steer a cross-functional software engineering team. You will balance hands-on coding with architecture, coach developers, and set engineering standards in a cloud-native, distributed environment.

You will own delivery, collaborate with Product Owners and Architects, and drive CI/CD, testing, and performance improvements while maintaining delivery velocity in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a software engineering team in an Agile environment.
• Hands-on software engineering background in at least one modern language (C#, Java).
• Designing and building distributed, event-driven, or cloud-native systems.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control (Git, GitLab).
• Solid understanding of OO design and automated testing across unit, integration, end-to-end.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality software on time and to standard.
• Own accountability for technical quality, stability, and performance of all delivered solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices across code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and secure development.
• Collaborate with Solution and Enterprise Architects to align with target architecture and standards.
• Partner with Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine requirements and translate them into deliverable work.
• Identify and remove delivery impediments, maintaining team velocity with Scrum Masters.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

C# / Java

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Communication

Tools

Git

GitLab

Job description

Ocho People is seeking an Engineering Team Lead in Belfast to steer a cross-functional software engineering team. You will balance hands-on coding with architecture, coach developers, and set engineering standards in a cloud-native, distributed environment.

You will own delivery, collaborate with Product Owners and Architects, and drive CI/CD, testing, and performance improvements while maintaining delivery velocity in a hybrid work model.