Product Engineering Team Lead

Nicoll Curtin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Healthcare

Life assurance

Extensive training

Job summary

Nicoll Curtin is seeking a Product Engineering Team Lead in London to blend technical leadership with people management. You will design and defend solutions in Java, React and Spring Boot while coaching delivery teams and engaging with major financial services clients.

The role requires a pragmatic leader who builds trust, mentors staff, and maintains credibility with senior stakeholders, all within an enterprise governance framework.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on Java, React and Spring Boot expertise.
• Broad stack knowledge including cloud platforms and microservices.
• Proven leadership and people-management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow one or more delivery teams with day-to-day people management.
• Own technical solution design and defend it to client stakeholders.
• Manage client expectations and push back when appropriate.
• Navigate enterprise governance and maintain delivery momentum.
• Be the go-to person for key stakeholders.

Skills

Java

React

Spring Boot

Cloud

Microservices

Engineering Leadership

Team Management

Stakeholder Management

Delivery mindset

Tools

GCP/Azure/AWS

Job description

Product Engineering Team Lead London, UK | Hybrid (3 days/week) | Permanent, Full-Time

We're hiring a Product Engineering Team Lead to join a fast-growing part of our business, working with major financial services clients — reporting into an engineering leader who's genuinely on a mission to transform and scale this practice.

This is a role split evenly between technical leadership and people leadership. You'll need real depth in Java, React and Spring Boot — confident enough to design a solution and defend it credibly to a sharp, technical client stakeholder — alongside strong team management experience and the personality to match: someone who builds trust fast, coaches well, and leads with credibility rather than just authority.

You'll be:

• Leading and growing one or more delivery teams, with genuine day-to-day people management and career development responsibility
• Owning technical solution design and defending it to client stakeholders
• Managing client expectations, including knowing when and how to push back — tactfully but firmly
• Navigating enterprise-level governance and process pragmatically, without losing delivery momentum
• Acting as the "go-to" person for your key stakeholders

What we're looking for:

• Deep, hands-on Java, React and Spring Boot expertise (non-negotiable)
• Broader technical range across the wider stack, cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS) and microservices
• Proven engineering leadership and team management experience
• Strong stakeholder management and tactful pushback skills
• A pragmatic, get-it-done mindset suited to enterprise process
• The right personality — approachable, credible, calm under pressure, genuinely invested in developing people

This is a rare opportunity to help shape and grow this part of the business alongside a leader who's genuinely invested in transformation.

Top global employer offering a competitive package including pension, healthcare, life assurance, and extensive training.

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