Product Engineering Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Life assurance

Laptop

Phone

Training resources

Tata network discounts

London Marathon sponsor

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services UK in London invites applications for a Product Engineering Team Lead. This permanent hybrid role focuses on strong engineering practices, stakeholder management, coaching and client value creation to drive revenue growth.

The successful candidate will mentor teams, ensure high-quality software deliveries across the SDLC, manage client expectations, and collaborate with multiple TCS teams to deliver strategic outcomes within an enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with SDLC expertise.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Exposure to API management platforms is a bonus.
• Cloud technologies (GCP/Azure/AWS) essential.
• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering through Agile processes.

Responsibilities

• Team deployment, performance management, and coaching.
• Stakeholder management and clear deliverables to client expectations.
• Own revenue protection and growth within teams.
• Collaborate with Client partners and Business Relationship Managers.
• Mentor team members and ensure high-quality technical solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

API design

Microservices

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Programming languages

Tools

Apigee

Layer7

API Connect

CI/CD

Job description

Role: Product Engineering Team Lead

Job Type: Permanent (Hybrid – 3 Days office)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time

Ready to utilize your experience and expertise in Product Engineering Team Lead?

We have an exciting role for you - Product Engineering Team Lead!

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Be part of an exciting team where you will be challenged every day.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.
• Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions.

The Role

The Product Engineering Team Lead will work across 1 or more teams to provide strong engineering best practices, Stakeholder management, Coaching and mentoring, Client Value creation and revenue growth and protection.

As such a successful candidate must be as equally happy with all parts of the SDLC, being able to act as the go to mentor for the team as well as be comfortable managing client expectations, performance escalations, delivery governance while bringing the agility of a startup inside the confinements of a enterprise work environment.

Your responsibilities

• Team Deployment, fulfilment and performance management
• Stakeholder management including and not limited to managing expectations, providing clear deliverables acting as the escalation point for your teams
• Own revenue protection and growth within your teams
• Partner with Client partners, Business Relationship Managers and other TCS staff to create and present solutions for both proactive and reactive requirements of the customer.
• Manage the career path, training, goal setting for members of your team
• Act as the ‘go to’ person for your key stakeholders
• Ensure all technical solutions are delivered to a high standard, setting the bar higher than the client expects
• Ensure the delivery of work is Above expectations and includes all of the clients governance such as approvals, documentations, build processes and sign-offs as needed
• Represent TCS Interactive and TCS to the client and be the voice of Engineering excellence
• Be the customers Advocate within TCS ensuring that the customer get’s the best outcomes possible from TCS and TCS Interactive
• Embed continuous improvement, delivery governance and engineering standards across the teams.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Detailed knowledge and experience of Software engineering and processes, to be able to confidently design and implement solutions.
• In depth knowledge of developing and managing API solutions, including REST and microservices.
• Exposure to an API Management Platform would be a bonus (eg: Apigee, Layer7, API Connect or similar).
• Knowledge of Cyber security and techniques to build secure and robust solutions.
• Cloud technologies and infrastructure are essential you will have exposure on at least one of the 3 main cloud providers Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills are also essential.
• Strong software engineering skills across multiple languages ideally at least 2 of the following: React, Angular, NodeJS, Java, Python, Swift, Kotlin, C#, Objective-C
• Engineering leadership
• Experience of working with DevOps tools and approaches
• Experience with agile development methodologies and tooling etc.
• Experience of using software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Strong Experiences and understanding of Microservices
• Experience in high-volume and large-scale environments
• Root-cause analysis and problem management
• Strong stakeholder coordination and communication skills
• Experience with rotation-based on-call and weekend support

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at [e-mail] if you would like to opt in.

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at [e-mail] with the subject line: "Adjustment Request" or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / [phone] to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.