Hands-on Technical Lead — Cloud & Media Platform

DGH Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media technology firm in Greater London is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide the development team and steer the technical direction of their ecosystem. This hands-on role requires a technology expert who can lead an experienced team, mentor juniors, and tackle complex challenges with scalable architecture. Ideal candidates should have expertise in JavaScript, AWS services, and media supply chain systems. Competitive salary and growth opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Experience with media codecs, protocols and container formats.
• Excellent understanding of Media Supply Chain.
• Exposure to VoD preparation, scheduling system and play‑out.

Responsibilities

• Guide the development team and drive the technical direction.
• Lead an experienced team and mentor juniors.
• Resolve complex challenges with scalable architecture.

Skills

JavaScript / Nodejs / TypeScript

DynamoDB

Lambda

EventBridge

CloudWatch

API Gateway

SQS

SNS

RDBMS (Postgres and MySQL ideally)

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Cloudformation

AWS CDK

Bitbucket

AWS Media Services

Job description

A leading media technology firm in Greater London is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide the development team and steer the technical direction of their ecosystem. This hands-on role requires a technology expert who can lead an experienced team, mentor juniors, and tackle complex challenges with scalable architecture. Ideal candidates should have expertise in JavaScript, AWS services, and media supply chain systems. Competitive salary and growth opportunities are available.