Senior Engineering Lead: AI-Driven Solutions & Excellence

Falcon Smart IT (FalconSmartIT); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Falcon Smart IT in London is seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to drive engineering excellence across the organisation. This senior role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction and people management to raise standards, architecture quality, and delivery efficiency.

The role collaborates with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering leadership to shape solutions, mitigate risks, and ensure teams have clear technical direction and modern ways of working,

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Experience designing cloud-native solutions at scale.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, testing, observability.
• Leadership in coaching, mentorship, and career development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and set engineering standards.
• Shape solutions with product and architecture partners.
• Lead multiple teams to align delivery with business value.
• Own the engineering operating model, SDLC and quality practices.
• Promote AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Drive cost efficiency and cloud cost optimisation.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture

System design

Cloud-native solutions

Microsoft Azure

DevOps / CI-CD

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Falcon Smart IT in London is seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to drive engineering excellence across the organisation. This senior role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction and people management to raise standards, architecture quality, and delivery efficiency.

The role collaborates with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering leadership to shape solutions, mitigate risks, and ensure teams have clear technical direction and modern ways of working,