Lead Development Engineer: AI‑Driven Architecture on Azure

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking a senior/lead engineer to shape architecture and code across product teams. You will work hands-on across diverse codebases, guiding design decisions and delivering high-impact features while balancing quality and delivery timelines.

You’ll mentor developers, contribute to shared packages, and help evolve SDLC practices for AI-enabled development, with a focus on secure, scalable, and maintainable software.

Qualifications

• You have strong experience with C#/.NET and Azure cloud services.
• Experience architecting scalable solutions and communicating tech to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor developers and work across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product delivery teams, embedding where useful, to develop technical architecture recommendations and implementation support.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise or consolidate solutions into reusable components and services.
• Help drive the evolution of SDLC practices for AI-enabled development, reducing friction while maintaining quality and sustainable delivery.
• Champion proportionate engineering practices: automated testing, CI/CD, coding standards, observability, technical debt management and maintainable code.
• Contribute hands‑on to the design and development of shared packages and services.
• Work with platform and infrastructure teams to keep solutions secure, compliant, operable and supported in production.
• Mentor developers and act as an approachable technical authority, translating business needs into practical technical options and trade-offs.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure PaaS/SaaS

RESTful API design

Azure SQL

CosmosDB/NoSQL

Architectural thinking

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure Functions

Azure App Services

Event Grid

Application Insights

Job description

Referment is seeking a senior/lead engineer to shape architecture and code across product teams. You will work hands-on across diverse codebases, guiding design decisions and delivering high-impact features while balancing quality and delivery timelines.

You’ll mentor developers, contribute to shared packages, and help evolve SDLC practices for AI-enabled development, with a focus on secure, scalable, and maintainable software.