Headless Web Platform Engineering Lead

Unite Group plc; West of England; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday

Generous pension scheme

Healthcare & wellbeing

ShareSave scheme

Job summary

Unite Students is seeking an experienced Web Engineering Lead to shape the future of its digital trading platform. You will own the Web Domain architecture, engineering standards and operational health, driving technical direction and excellence across multiple teams and external partners.

You will guide the move to a modern, headless, multi‑brand platform, ensuring secure, scalable performance and cost‑effective cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading the architecture of complex, customer‑facing web platforms.
• Proven track record improving engineering quality and standards.
• Experience managing engineering partners and driving delivery accountability.
• Understanding of production service ownership including reliability, security, observability and cloud cost management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction: Own the architecture and roadmap for the Web Domain.
• Lead the move to a modern, headless, multi‑brand architecture scalable to the business.
• Raise engineering standards: help teams write better code and follow consistent practices.
• Improve release processes: strengthen testing, CI/CD and release pipelines.
• Ensure performance, security, reliability and monitoring across trading periods.
• Own the AWS environment: secure, reliable, cost‑effective cloud infra.

Skills

Web architecture

Technical leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

AI tooling

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Unite Students is seeking an experienced Web Engineering Lead to shape the future of its digital trading platform. You will own the Web Domain architecture, engineering standards and operational health, driving technical direction and excellence across multiple teams and external partners.

You will guide the move to a modern, headless, multi‑brand platform, ensuring secure, scalable performance and cost‑effective cloud operations.