Senior Technical Lead

E-Solutions; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Solutions in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design architectures for ERP modules, lead security-focused coding and oversee production deployments across dev, staging and production environments.

The role combines hands-on development with governance of engineering standards, threat modelling and vulnerability remediation to ensure SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing architectures for ERP modules and integrations.
• Hands-on development of core components with production debugging.
• Proven ability to drive performance profiling and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
• Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
• Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
• Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
• Partner with infrastructure/DevOps on CI/CD, containerization and AWS hosting.
• Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
• Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
• Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR; manage secrets handling and deployment safety.

Skills

Secure coding

Performance profiling

Production deployments

Software architecture

Code quality gates

Threat modelling

Vulnerability assessments

CI/CD collaboration

Tools

Docker

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Nginx

Apache

PhpUnit

Job description

• Platform: Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
• Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Testing: Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools
• Template Engines: Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
• Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
• Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
• Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
• Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
• An eye for security vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, DDOS, XSS
• Partner with infrastructure/DevOps on CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization and AWS hosting.
• Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
• Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
• Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR
• Secrets handling, CI/CD design, containerization and deployment safety